sombra – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of sombra

Noun: sombra
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular msombra
Plural msombras

Sample Sentences

  • D’esta fontiña áa beira froleada
  • sentado áa sombra de un chorón estóu
  • doído o peito, á alma esconsolada
  • triste morrendo pouco a pouco vóu. (By the flowery side of this spring,
  • sitting in the shade of a weeping willow I am,
  • aching heart, disconsolate soul,
  • sad, little by little I die) [1845, Alberto Camino, O desconsolo:]
  • estaua Paris adeante su a soonbra de hũ moy grande et forte rrobre (Paris was ahead, under the shadow of a very large and strong oak tree) [c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker, editor, Historia Troyana, page 50:]
  • Cando penso que te fuches,
  • negra sombra que me asombras,
  • ó pé dos meus cabezales
  • tornas facéndome mofa.
  • Cando maxino que es ida,
  • no mesmo sol te me amostras,
  • i eres a estrela que brila,
  • i eres o vento que zoa.
  • Si cantan, es ti que cantas,
  • si choran, es ti que choras,
  • i es o marmurio do río
  • i es a noite i es a aurora.
  • En todo estás e ti es todo,
  • pra min i en min mesma moras,
  • nin me abandonarás nunca,
  • sombra que sempre me asombras. (When I think that you're gone,
  • dark shadow that shadows me,
  • at the feet of my bed
  • you return to mock me.
  • When I'm imagining you're gone,
  • in the sun itself you show yourself,
  • and you are the star that glitters
  • and you are the wind that howls.
  • if they sing, it's you, singing,
  • if they cry, it's you, crying,
  • and you are the river's murmur,
  • and you're the night, and you're the dawn.
  • Everywhere you're and you're everything,
  • for me and in myself you dwell,
  • but you'll never left me alone,
  • shadow that always shadows me.) [1880, Rosalía de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:]

Nouns inflected like sombra

miligramo, mililitro, acontecemento, urodelo, ancoradoiro, vimieiro, serrón, sesego, sedeño, iceberg, sarrio, sabuio, sabugo, sabujo, sabuxo, sabelo, sangue, saibro, saltón, salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese soonbra, perhaps from Latin sub (“under”) + umbra (“shadow”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'soonbra'.

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