Noun: raya
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ra‧ya
| Singular f | raya |
| Plural f | rayas |
Sample Sentences
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Manolo me pasa un talego con el que me hago un canutillo bien tensado y me meto la primera raya. [1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter VII, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 104:]
Nouns inflected like raya
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish, probably from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius or a related derivative; cf. the verb rayar, or from the feminine form of rayo. Probably a doublet of raza. Cognate with Portuguese raia, French raie. See: Latin Nouns '
radius', Portuguese Nouns '
raia', French Nouns '
raie'.
Verbs referencing "raya"
Galician Nouns
raia.
Translations