cánaba

Galician

Alternative forms
  • cánama, cániva

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Latin cannaba. Cognate with Spanish cáñama.[1]

Noun

cánaba m (plural cánabas)

  1. (archaic) contribution, quota
    • 1385, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 245:
      pagando outrosí cada hun a sua canama que lle fose reparada dos ditos viinte mill mrs
      paying also each one his contribution as it was assigned of the mentioned twenty thousand maravedis

Derived terms
  • encanabador
  • encanabar
  • encánama

References
  • “canava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “canama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cánaba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cániva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “canabas” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cánaba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cáñama”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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