raza

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See also: Raza, rază, raža, ražā, and rażą

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ra‧za

Noun

raza f (plural races)

  1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)

Ladin

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ra‧za

Noun

raza f (plural razes)

  1. race (group of people)

Livonian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Noun

raza

  1. fat

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ra‧za
  • Homophone: rasa (Latin-America)

Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Italian razza (compare other Romance cognates such as French race, Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese raça).[1]

Noun

raza f (plural razas)

  1. race, ethnicity
    La raza — the people, mestizo (to denote national pride)
  2. breed, strain, lineage
    ¿Cómo es que yo nunca he oído de esa raza de perro antes?
    How is it that I've never heard of that dog breed before?

Etymology 2

From Old Spanish raça, from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius[2]. Probably a doublet of raya.

Noun

raza f (plural razas)

  1. cleft, fissure
  2. beam of light, ray of light
  3. crack (in a horse’s hoof)
  4. stripe

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