febra

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfe.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfe.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfe.bɾa]

febra f (plural febres)

1. (Valencia) alternative form of febre

• “febra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfebra/
• Rhymes: -ebra
• Syllabification: fe‧bra

febra (accusative singular febran, plural febraj, accusative plural febrajn)

1. febrile, feverish

• febro

• freba

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin fibra (“fiber; boneless meat”) (compare Spanish hebra); less probably, from an Arabic source.^[1] Cognate with Portuguese fêvera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeβɾa̝/

febra f (plural febras)

1. fiber, thread
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 316:

     Et sabede que en todo o muro nõ ouuo y torre nẽ cubete nẽ arca hu algũ home podesse estar lidando en que nõ estouesse syna ou pendón de féuera cõ bandas d'ouro

     You must know that in all the wall there were neither tower nor turret nor brattice where a man can be fighting and where there were not a banner or standard of thread [of silk] and stripes of gold

2. lean, boneless meat, specially when referring to pork loin meat

• entrefrebado
• februdo

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “feuera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “febra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “freba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “febra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “febra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• frybra (Near Masovian, Western Lublin, Chmielnik)
• frébra (Far Masovian)

Learned borrowing from Latin febris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.bra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛbra
• Syllabification: fe‧bra

febra f

1. ague (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
2. (colloquial) herpes

   Synonym: opryszczka

3. (dated) malaria

   Synonyms: malaria, zimnica

• “febra”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “febra”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfebra]

febra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of febră