sarabia

Alternative forms

• saraiba

Etymology

14th century. Unknown: from the older spelling saravea (1370), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈɾaβja̝/, /saˈɾaβi.a̝/

Noun

sarabia f (plural sarabias)

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

   Synonyms: graínzo, pedra, pedrazo

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), 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

References

• “saravea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “saráuea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “sarabia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “sarabia” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “sarabia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.