azarella

Galician

From old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese zarello (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from a diminutive of Latin lacer. Compare modern Galician cerello (“tatter”).

azarella m (plural azarellas)

(historical) a certain quality or item of cloth
- 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 67:
  Iten, preçaron duas toallas e hua azarella e hua sauaa e dous cadillos e hun saquo e hua manta vella e hua azarella em oytenta maravedis
  Item, the apprised two towels and an azarella and a shit and two cadillos and a sack and an old blanket and a azarella in eighty maravedis

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “azarello”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “zarel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “azarella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega