beira

beira (plural beira)

1. A small antelope, Dorcatragus megalotis, found in the Horn of Africa

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese beira (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), either from ribeira from Latin riparia, or either from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbejɾa̝/

beira f (plural beiras)

1. border, edge, brim, limit
2. rime, eave
   • 1404, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 172:

     It. mando a Diego de Lemos meu primo a cota e bacerete [bacenete] de beyra et todas as outras armas de meu corpo

     Item, I send Diego de Lemos, my cousin, my armour and helm with visor [forepiece?] and all the other pieces of my body armour

   Synonyms: bordo, marxe

3. shore

   Synonyms: beiramar, orela, ribeira

4. bank

   Synonym: ribeira

• á beira
• beira de
• Beira do Río
• beirado
• beirarrúa
• Beiras
• beiravía
• beiril
• beiramar
• facer as beiras

• “beira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “beira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “beira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “beira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “beira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Homophone: Beira
• Hyphenation: bei‧ra

Inherited from Old Portuguese beira, from ribeira.

beira f (plural beiras)

1. edge, margin, border

For quotations using this term, see Citations:beira.

beira

1. inflection of beirar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

For quotations using this term, see Citations:beirar.