calamarsa

Probably from a Pre-Roman Celtic root caria martia ("stones of March"), analogically to calabruix (“hail”).^[1] If so, comparable to modern Welsh cerrig Mawrth (“stones of March”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kə.ləˈmar.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.laˈmaɾ.sa]

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calamarsa f (plural calamarses)

1. hail (balls of ice falling as precipitation)

   Synonyms: granís, pedra

• calamarsada
• calamarsejar

• “calamarsa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “calamarsa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “calamarsa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “calamarsa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.