sarabia

Galician

Sarabia ("hail")

Etymology 1

Unknown. Attested since 1370 (saravea); probably from a substrate language.

Alternative forms

• saraiba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saˈɾaβjɐ], [saˈɾaβɪ.ɐ]

Noun

sarabia f (plural sarabias)

1. hail, hailstone (balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation)

   Synonyms: graínzo, pedra, pedrazo

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 610:

     Et alí veeriades uoar dardos et saetas, tã espesos cõmo a saráuea quando cae moyto espesa

     And you would see there darts and arrows fly, as thick as the hail when in falls thickly

   • 1846, anonymous author, Carta de Cristobo a seu tio Don Alifonso de Santiago:

     Os escoleres quixeron
     Compol o diallo d’a zambra
     Con paliq’e cortesias
     Pro os demos repricaban
     Zimbrando sopapos ‘n eles
     Coma quen chobe saraiba.

     the sorcerers wanted to
     appease the devil of the uproar
     with chitchat and courtesies
     but the demons replied
     delivering smacks on them
     as if raining hailstone

Derived terms

• sarabela
• sarabiada
• sarabiar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “sarauea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “saráuea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sarabia”, 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), “sarabia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sarabia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

sarabia

1. third-person singular present indicative of sarabiar