orballo

Galician

Attested since the 13th century, as orvallo. From a substrate language. Cognate with Portuguese orvalho, Asturian orbayu and dialectal Spanish urbajo, orvayo.^[1]

orballo m (plural orballos)

drizzle; mist
Synonyms: babuxa, barruzo, brétema, chovisca, poalla, zarzallo, froallo
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:
  Fillo, Deus te de do oruallo do çeo et da grosura da terra aabondo de tríj́go
  My Son, God gives you, of the wetness of the sky and of the richness of the earth, plenty of wheat
dew
- 1797, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Máis garrida que a rosa no seu leito (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 19-20):
  Mais Garrida que a [r]osa no seu le[y]to / Cando pola mañan a rega ó ervallo
  More fresh and beautiful than a rose in its bed / When in the morning the dew waters it
Synonyms: relento, resío, rosada
stye

Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “orual”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “orballo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “orballo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “orballo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “orvallo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos