chousa

Galician

an old walled chousa, zarro, or devesa

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin clausa (“enclosed”). Compare Portuguese chouso, chousura.

Noun

chousa f (plural chousas)

1. enclosed woodland

   Synonyms: devesa, landeira, zarra

2. enclosed pastures or orchard
   • 1362, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 172:

     en toda a chousa que Andre Deus de Ueyga tinna sarrada et marcada por marcos et chantada de vinna

     in all the enclosing that André de Deus de Veiga had closed and delimited by boundary stoned and planted with vines

3. (fishing) a fine mesh net

Derived terms

• Chousa
• Chousa Grande
• Chousela
• Chouselas

Related terms

• choer (“to enclose”)
• chouso
• Chouso
• chousura
• conchouso

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chousa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chousa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chousa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chousa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chousa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin clausa, clausus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo(w).zɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo(w).zɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃow.zɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃo.zɐ/

• Hyphenation: chou‧sa
• Rhymes: -owzɐ, -ozɐ

Noun

chousa f (plural chousas)

1. (archaic) enclosed pastures or orchard