parva

Asturian

Etymology

With the first meaning, attested since 1843. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɾba/, [ˈpaɾ.β̞a]

Noun

parva f (plural parves)

1. small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or aguardiente.
   • 1843, Juan Junquera Huergo, Llos Trabayos de Chinticu:

     De boroña un rexilon, / que na corexa se tria, / ó un gaxu de panchon, / yera de munchos lla parba, / lla miuya ell golar yera / í d'agua bona cachada, / pos que lla mió zebera / non taba non enfornada.

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   • 1912, Pachín de Melás, Xuacu busca criáu.. ¡y ná más!:

     Y NA MAS... deseguía a tomar la parva, que una sardina arenga y una escudiella de lleche a Dios, non falta.

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   • 1920, Manuel García, Cartes a Xico:

     o tenga que pasar unes semanes / en sin tomar la parva, allá van seis perrines, / pa que veyes que los que tan na Bana / atropen el dinero como poxa / y non sienten gastalo nin migaya.

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   • 1925, Fabriciano González García, Vino barato:

     -Bonos díes, siñor Cura, / -Santos y bonos, Bartolu. / Acabo tomá la parva / De lo moreno, y un sorbu / De resquemín, que se pinta / Y esmecha pa mata 'l pioyu.

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2. (by extension) breakfast
3. pile of dry grass
4. pile of manure
5. (by extension) a big amount of something

   Trai una bona parva de preseos

   He/She brings a lot of tools

References

• “parva” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

Galician

Etymology

With the first meaning, attested since 1807. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɾ.βɐ]

Adjective

parva

1. feminine singular of parvo

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

1. small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or augardente
   • 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     é estou en que na quel dia / vos laparon todo aquelo / que non poideron vender / como quen vos toma a parva

     I have the idea that that day they slurped everything that couldn't sell, as if having a snack

2. (regional) breakfast
3. grain prepared for threshing

Related terms

• parvo

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parva”, 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), “parva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “parva”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latin

Adjective

parva

1. inflection of parvus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

parvā

1. ablative feminine singular of parvus

References

• parva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Spanish

Noun

parva f (plural parvas)

1. unthreshed grain
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 184:

     San Lorenzo es dueño de los vientos; por eso cuando en las parvas hay calma, los peones gritan: «¡Lorenzo! ¡Lorenzo!»

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2. pile, heap

Adjective

parva f

1. feminine singular of parvo

Further reading

• “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10