# parva
## Asturian
### Etymology

With the first meaning, attested since 1843. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaɾba/, [ˈpaɾ.β̞a]

### Noun

parva f (plural parves)
* small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or aguardiente.
** 1843, Juan Junquera Huergo, Llos Trabayos de Chinticu:De boroña un rexilon, / que na corexa se tria, / ó un gaxu de panchon, / yera de munchos lla parba, / lla miuya ell golar yera / í d'agua bona cachada, / pos que lla mió zebera / non taba non enfornada.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1912, Pachín de Melás, Xuacu busca criáu.. ¡y ná más!:Y NA MAS... deseguía a tomar la parva, que una sardina arenga y una escudiella de lleche a Dios, non falta.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1920, Manuel García, Cartes a Xico:o tenga que pasar unes semanes / en sin tomar la parva, allá van seis perrines, / pa que veyes que los que tan na Bana / atropen el dinero como poxa / y non sienten gastalo nin migaya.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1925, Fabriciano González García, Vino barato:-Bonos díes, siñor Cura, / -Santos y bonos, Bartolu. / Acabo tomá la parva / De lo moreno, y un sorbu / De resquemín, que se pinta / Y esmecha pa mata 'l pioyu.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (by extension) breakfast
* pile of dry grass
* pile of manure
* (by extension) a big amount of something
    Trai una bona parva de preseosHe/She brings a lot of tools

### References

* “parva” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

## Galician
### Etymology

With the first meaning, attested since 1807. From Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaɾba/ [ˈpaɾ.β̞ɐ]
* Rhymes: -aɾba
* Hyphenation: par‧va

### Adjective

parva
* feminine singular of parvo

### Noun

parva f (plural parvas)
* small meal in the morning of a working day, before or after the breakfast, traditionally accompanied by wine or augardente
** 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:é estou en que na quel dia / vos laparon todo aquelo / que non poideron vender / como quen vos toma a parvaI have the idea that that day they slurped everything that couldn't sell, as if having a snack
* (regional) breakfast
* grain prepared for threshing

#### Related terms

* parvo

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “parva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “parva”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Latin
### Adjective

parva
* inflection of parvus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

parvā
* ablative feminine singular of parvus

### References

* parva 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)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaɾba/ [ˈpaɾ.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aɾba
* Syllabification: par‧va

### Noun

parva f (plural parvas)
* unthreshed grain
** 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 184:San Lorenzo es dueño de los vientos; por eso cuando en las parvas hay calma, los peones gritan: «¡Lorenzo! ¡Lorenzo!»(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* pile, heap
    Synonyms: pila, montón, rimero, hacina

### Adjective

parva f
* feminine singular of parvo

### Further reading

* “parvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10