sabenla

Galician

sables, sabenlas or zamborcas

Alternative forms

• sabela, sabella, sabenlla

Etymology

Perhaps from a diminutive *sabelella from *sabŏlos, from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”) (compare sable, zamborca).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saˈβɛŋlɐ]

Noun

sabenla f (plural sabenlas)

1. allis shad (Alosa alosa)

   Synonyms: sable, tasca, zamborca

   • 1319, Ermelindo Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 393:

     vos que ayades esa renda da dizima dos savees e do pescado que y sayr en vossa vida e despos vosa morte que fique a nos o dito arynno

     you should have this rent of a tenth of the shads and of the fish that is captured there, in your life, and after your death this sand island should return to us

References

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