freba

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Portuguese fêvera), from Latin fibra (fiber; boneless meat) (compare Spanish hebra); less probably, from an Arabic source.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

freba f (plural frebas)

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

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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