raña

Uncertain. From the same origin of rañar, Spanish arañar and Portuguese arranhar.[1]

Starting with the sense of "mange" or "scabies", more likely from Latin arānea (“spiderweb”), and thus a doublet of araña. Compare Romanian râie (“mange, scabies”), also Portuguese ronha, Spanish roña, Catalan ronya, French rogne, Italian rogna, all with the same meaning and derived from a related Vulgar Latin root *aronea or *ronea. Alternatively, possibly derived from the verb rañar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɲa̝/

raña f (plural rañas)

1. gully
2. riprap, breakwater
3. grump, moaner; whiner, grumbler
4. rowan, service tree
5. cheat, trick
6. iron pronged fork
7. mange, scabies

• Raña
• Rañadoiro
• rañar
• Rañó
• Rañoa

raña m or f (plural rañas)

1. whiner, grumbler
2. moaner, grumpy

raña

1. third-person singular present indicative of rañar
2. second-person singular imperative of rañar

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

raña f (plural rañas)

1. a sediment of clayey quartzite