sarabia

Unknown. Attested since 1370 (saravea); probably from a substrate language.[1]

• saraiba

• IPA^(key): [saˈɾaβjɐ], [saˈɾaβɪ.ɐ]

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

• sarabela
• sarabiada
• sarabiar

• “sarauea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “saráuea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “sarabia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sarabia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sarabia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

sarabia

1. third-person singular present indicative of sarabiar