# raia
## English
### Noun

raia (plural raias)
* Alternative form of raya (“type of historical territory”)

## Galician
### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

raia f (plural raias)
* stripe (long, straight region of a single colour)
* border (line separating regions)
    Synonym: fronteira
* em dash (—)
* ray (fish)

##### Related terms

* raiar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

raia
* inflection of raer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative
* inflection of raiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin raia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.ja/
* Rhymes: -aja
* Hyphenation: rà‧ia

### Noun

raia f (plural raie)
* ray, skate (fish)
    Synonym: razza

### Anagrams

* -aria, arai, aria

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* raja

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈrai̯.i̯a/, [ˈräi̯ːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈra.ja/, [ˈräːjä]

### Noun

raia f (genitive raiae); first declension
* ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: rajada
* Old French: raie
** → Middle English: raye
*** English: ray
** French: raie
* Galician: raia
* → Hungarian: rája
* Italian: razza
* Portuguese: raia, arraia
* Sicilian: raja
* Spanish: raya

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “raia”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 512-3

### Further reading

* “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.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈhaɪ̯.ɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈhaɪ̯.ɐ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈχaɪ̯.ɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁaj.a/ [ˈhaɪ̯.a]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁaj.ɐ/
* Rhymes: -ajɐ
* Hyphenation: rai‧a

### Etymology 1

From the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Galician raia, Spanish raya. Cf. also French raie.
A less likely etymology derives it from an earlier arraia, from Old Galician-Portuguese *arraia, from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

#### Alternative forms

* arraia

#### Noun

raia f (plural raias)
* stripe
* border (the line or frontier area separating countries)
    Synonym: fronteira
* (figuratively) limit
* (colloquial) mistake
    Synonym: erro

##### Derived terms

* raiano

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

raia
* inflection of raiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3

From Latin raia.

#### Noun

raia f (plural raias)
* ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

raia m (plural raiale)
* rayah

#### Declension
## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

raia class I/IX (plural raia class II/X or maraia class II/X)
* citizen
    Synonym: mwananchi
* subject (in a monarchy)

#### Derived terms

* uraia