ría

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈri.ɐ]

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
   • 1448, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), 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

   Synonyms: abra, esteiro

• da ría (“locally [fished]”)

• “ria” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ría” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ría” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ría” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

Borrowed from Galician ría. Doublet of río.

ría f (plural rías)

1. mouth of a river, estuary

   Synonym: desembocadura

Non-lemma forms

ría

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

• “ría”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014