# febra
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈfe.βɾə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈfe.bɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfe.bɾa]

### Noun

febra f (plural febres)
* (Valencia) Alternative form of febre

### Further reading

* “febra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfebra/
* Hyphenation: feb‧ra

### Adjective

febra (accusative singular febran, plural febraj, accusative plural febrajn)
* febrile, feverish

#### Related terms

* febro

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* freba

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin fibra (“fiber; boneless meat”) (compare Spanish hebra); less probably, from an Arabic source. Cognate with Portuguese fêvera.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfeβɾa̝/

### Noun

febra f (plural febras)
* fiber, thread
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 316:Et sabede que en todo o muro nõ ouuo y torre nẽ cubete nẽ arca hu algũ home podesse estar lidando en que nõ estouesse syna ou pendón de féuera cõ bandas d'ouroYou must know that in all the wall there were neither tower nor turret nor brattice where a man can be fighting and where there were not a banner or standard of thread [of silk] and stripes of gold
* lean, boneless meat, specially when referring to pork loin meat

#### Derived terms

* entrefrebado
* februdo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “feuera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “féuera”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “freba”, 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), “febra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “febra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Corriente, Federico (2008) “febra”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* frybra (Near Masovian)
* frébra (Far Masovian)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin febris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛ.bra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛbra
* Syllabification: fe‧bra

### Noun

febra f
* ague (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
* (colloquial) herpes
    Synonym: opryszczka
* (dated) malaria
    Synonyms: malaria, zimnica

#### Derived terms

* febryczny

#### Related terms

* febrycznie

### Further reading

* febra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* febra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfebra]

### Noun

febra f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of febră