raia

raia (plural raias)

1. Alternative form of raya (“type of historical territory”).

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], probably the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Portuguese raia, Spanish raya.

raia f (plural raias)

1. stripe (long, straight region of a single colour)
2. border (line separating regions)

   Synonym: fronteira

3. em dash (—)
4. ray (fish)

• raiar

raia

1. inflection of raer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of raiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin raia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: rà‧ia

raia f (plural raie)

1. ray, skate (fish)

   Synonym: razza

• -aria, arai, aria

• raja

Hypothetically from a Proto-Italic *rajjā (perhaps < *ragjā), with unknown further origin. Parallels can be found in Germanic: Middle Dutch rogghe/rochghe (Dutch rog) and Middle Low German rugge, from Western Proto-Germanic *rugg-, as well as Old English reohhe, Middle English reyhhe, reȝge, rygh all meaning "ray". Taken together with the Latin, these forms could point to a dialectal Proto-Indo-European *raK- ~ *ruK- (“ray”); however, the phonetic correspondences are unusual even within Germanic, and this could indicate a shared loanword or substrate origin for both the Germanic and Latin.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraj.ja]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.ja]

raia f (genitive raiae); first declension

1. ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

First-declension noun.

• “raia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "raia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “raia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Hyphenation: rai‧a

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raia (“ray”), from Latin raia (“ray”), of uncertain origin.

• arraia

raia f (plural raias)

1. ray (marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail)
2. kite (flying toy on a string)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pipa

Uncertain. Likely from raio (“beam”) +‎ -a (forms feminine equivalents), or from an equivalent Vulgar Latin *radia, ultimately from Latin radius. Cognates include Galician raia and Spanish raya.

• arraia (in sense 2)

raia f (plural raias)

1. stripe
3. border (the line or frontier area separating countries)

   Synonym: fronteira

4. (figuratively) limit
5. (colloquial) mistake

   Synonym: erro

• raiano

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

raia

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

• “raia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish رعایا (raya), from Arabic رَعَايَا (raʕāyā), plural of رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

raia m (plural raiale)

1. rayah

Borrowed from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).^[1]

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raia class I/IX (plural raia class II/X or maraia class II/X)

1. citizen

   Synonym: mwananchi

2. subject (in a monarchy)

• kiraia
• uraia