sabenla

Galician

sables, sabenlas or zamborcas

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from a diminutive *sabelella from *sabŏlos, from Proto-Celtic *samos (summer) (compare sable, zamborca).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [saˈβɛŋlɐ]

Noun

sabenla f (plural sabenlas)

  1. allis shad (Alosa alosa)
    • 1319, Ermelindo Portela Silva (ed.), La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis. Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 393:
      vos que ayades esa renda da dizima dos savees e do pescado que y sayr en vossa vida e despos vosa morte que fique a nos o dito arynno
      you should have this rent of a tenth of the shads and of the fish that is captured there, in your life, and after your death this sand island should return to us
    Synonyms: sable, tasca, zamborca

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