marabilla

Galician

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

• “maravilla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “maravilla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “marauilla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “marabilla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “marabilla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “marabilla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

marabilla

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