febra

See also: febră

Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfebra/
Hyphenation: feb‧ra

Adjective

febra (accusative singular febran, plural febraj, accusative plural febrajn)

febrile, feverish

Related terms

febro

Galician

Alternative forms

freba

Etymology

From Old Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese fêvera), from Latin fibra (“fiber; boneless meat”) (compare Spanish hebra); less probably, from an Arabic source.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfeβɾa̝/

Noun

febra f (plural febras)

fiber, thread
lean, boneless meat, specially when referring to pork loin meat

Derived terms

entrefrebado
februdo

References

“freba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
“febra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“febra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Corriente, Federico (2008), “febra”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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