marabilla

Galician

Alternative forms

• maravilha (reintegrationist)

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese maravilla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mirabilia. Cognate with Portuguese maravilha, Spanish maravilla and English marvel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maɾaˈβiʎɐ]

Noun

marabilla f (plural marabillas)

1. wonder, marvel
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Ms. O. I. 1. del Escorial, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 225:

     Fillo todaslas orações et todoslos sacrifiçios que eu soybe et poyde fazer anoso Señor Deus por aver aty, todoslos [fige]; et el oyume et douteme ẽna myña velleçe et de tua madre, et esto foy marabilla

     My son, every prayer and every sacrifice that I knew or could do to our Lord God for having you, that I did; and He heard me and He gave you to me at my old age, and of your mother, and this was a marvel

Related terms

• marabillar
• marabilloso

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “maravilla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “maravilla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marauilla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marabilla”, 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), “marabilla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marabilla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “marabilla”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Etymology 2

Verb

marabilla

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