broa

Borrowed from Portuguese broa, possibly of Germanic origin.

broa (countable and uncountable, plural broas)

1. A type of cornbread made in Portugal, Galicia and Brazil with wheat, rye and yeast.

• Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, boar, bora, bora-

• boroa, brea, brona

Obscure. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese borõa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); cognate with Portuguese broa and Asturian borona, from a substrate language and not directly from Germanic *braudą (“bread”), as has been proposed.[1] Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars- (“spike, prickle”) (compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno ‘flour’, Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”)).[2] (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɾo.ɐ]

broa f (plural broas)

1. (historical) millet bread
2. black bread, cornbread: bread made of rye, millet and maize
   • 1805, anonymous, Representación dos veciños da Pontedeva (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 21-23):

     non pode querer ó noso Rey que lle paguemos un carto polo neto do viño, que non podemos vender á ochavo. Os probes non comemos mais ca un pouco de pan, ou bróa ruin, e unhas berzas sin adubo. Si nos quita a pinga do viño, ¿que forza emos ter para traballar as terras?

     our King can't pretend that we pay a quarter by each pint of wine [we consume], when we can't even sell it for half a quarter. We the poor people eat but a little of bread, or bad black bread, and some greens without seasoning. If He takes this little wine, what strength we'll have left for working the lands?

• “borõa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• "borõa" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “broa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “broa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “broa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• broen

broa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of bro

• boroa

From Old Portuguese borõa, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more. Compare Galician broa.

• Hyphenation: bro‧a

broa f (plural broas)

1. broa (type of cornbread made in Portugal, Galicia and Brazil)
   • 2013, ANTÓNIO MOTA, O Lobisomem, Leya, →ISBN:

     Logo de manhãzinha, o Zezinho Patola apareceu em nossa casa, bebeu um cálice de aguardente e comeu uma fatiazinha do miolo de uma broa, porque já não tinha dentes para a côdea, que é a parte mais gostosa, […]

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• → English: broa

• “broa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “broa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• broa on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt