zamarra

See also: Zamarra

English

A man wearing a zamarra

Noun

zamarra (plural zamarras)

1. sheepskin
2. A sheepskin coat worn in parts of Spain

Galician

Alternative forms

• chamarra

Etymology

Attested, in Galician, since the 15th century (çamarra). Probably ultimately from Basque zamar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /θaˈmara/ [θaˈma.rɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /θaˈmara/ [θaˈma.rɐ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /saˈmara/ [saˈma.rɐ]

• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: za‧ma‧rra

Noun

zamarra f (plural zamarras)

1. coat
   • 1414, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 103:

     Item lle mando mays a mjña çamarra que eu trago et çento τ çinquoẽeta mrs. para veeſtiario.

     Item, I bequeath him my coat, the one that I wear, and hundred and fifty maravedis for dressing

   • 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:

     Estóu debendo na tenda
     A chamarra que hoje trago
     E o somonte dos calzós
     Que ja estan feitos farrapos;

     I owe to the shop
     the coat I wear today
     and the cloth of the pants,
     which are already in tatters

2. (dated) sheepskin coat

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çamarra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zamarra”, 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), “zamarra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “zamarra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From Basque zamarra, zamar (“sheepskin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θaˈmara/ [θaˈma.ra]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saˈmara/ [saˈma.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: za‧ma‧rra

Noun

zamarra f (plural zamarras)

1. zamarra; sheepskin
2. zamarra (coat)
3. (sports) shirt; jersey; top

Further reading

• “zamarra”, 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