camariña

Galician

Camariñas

Camariña ("chamber") of a palloza house, O Piornedo, Galicia

Etymology

From cámara (“chamber”) +‎ -iña (“little”), literally “little chamber”; the plant, perhaps else from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *kat-marina (“maritime”) (vel sim).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamaˈɾiɲa̝/

Noun

camariña f (plural camariñas)

1. little chamber or bedroom

Noun

camariña f (plural camariñas)

1. Corema album (a heath endemic of the Atlantic regions of the Iberian peninsula and southern France)

   Synonym: camariñeira

Derived terms

• Camariña
• Camariñas
• Pobra do Caramiñal

Descendants

• Spanish: camariña

See also

• camariña on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

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