camariña

Galician

Camariñas

Camariña ("chamber") of a palloza house, O Piornedo, Galicia

Etymology

From cámara (“chamber”) +‎ -iña (“little”), literally “little chamber”; the plant, perhaps else from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *kat-marina (“maritime”) (vel sim).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamaˈɾiɲa̝/

Noun

camariña f (plural camariñas)

1. little chamber or bedroom

Noun

camariña f (plural camariñas)

1. Corema album (a heath endemic of the Atlantic regions of the Iberian peninsula and southern France)

   Synonym: camariñeira

Derived terms

• Camariña
• Camariñas
• Pobra do Caramiñal

Descendants

• Spanish: camariña

See also

• camariña on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “camariña”, 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), “camariña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “camariña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN