ría

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ria"

Galician

Ría de Ferrol / Ferrol bay

Ría de Ortigueira / Ortigueira bay

Etymology 1

Attested since 1432. From río (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈri.ɐ]

Noun

ría f (plural rías)

1. (geography) Geographical coastal landform where a river valley is partially subducted under the sea level; similar to a firth, although usually translated into English cartography as bay

   Synonyms: abra, esteiro

   • 1448, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 560:

     o dito seu lugar e vila da Proba ena ria dela

     said place and town of A Pobra [do Caramiñal] in its bay

   • 1460, Rui Vasques, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 135:

     Et logo comesçou a rreparrar o castello do Est por gardar a terra dos ysmaelitas et normanos, que entrauã porla rria e estragauã toda a terra.

     And then he began to repair the castle of Oeste, for protecting the country from the Ismaelites and the Norsemen, who used to enter through the bay, then wasting all the land

Derived terms

• da ría (“locally [fished]”)

References

• “ria” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ría”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “ría”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ría”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

ría

1. inflection of rir:
   1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈria/ [ˈri.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: rí‧a

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Galician ría. Doublet of río.

Noun

ría f (plural rías)

1. mouth of a river, estuary

   Synonym: desembocadura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ría

1. inflection of reír:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “ría”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10