regueifa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese regueifa, from Arabic رَغَائِف (raḡāʔif), plural of رَغِيفَة (raḡīfa, “loaf”), colloquial variant of رَغِيف (raḡīf, “loaf”).^[1] Cognate with Portuguese regueifa and Spanish regaifa.

• Rhymes: -ejfa
• Hyphenation: re‧guei‧fa

regueifa f (plural regueifas)

1. traditional wedding cake
2. improvisation contest (initially held for gaining the cake)

   Coordinate term: parrafeo

3. (dated) large loaf of wheat bread
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Christobo:
     Eu cortarey o molete.
     Cathalina:
     Tomà vos essa rigeyfa,
     porque tamen e pantrigo.

     Christobo:
     "I'll cut the muffin"
     Cathalina:
     "Take that loaf,
     because it is also wheat bread"

• regueifeiro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “regueifa”, 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), “regueifa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “regueifa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• regueyfa

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic رَغِيفَة (raḡīfa, “loaf”), colloquial variant of رَغِيف (raḡīf, “loaf”).

• IPA^(key): /reˈɡejfa/
• Rhymes: -ejfa
• Hyphenation: re‧guei‧fa

regueifa f (plural regueifas)

1. large loaf of bread

   Hypernym: pan

   • 1389, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 408:

     cada dia de natal darnos edes huna boa regueyfa de trigo et duas boas galynas

     each Christmas day you'll give to us a good loaf of wheat and two good hens

• Galician: regueifa
• Portuguese: regueifa

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “regueifa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “regueifa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese regueifa, from Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic رَغِيفَة (raḡīfa, “loaf”), colloquial variant of رَغِيف (raḡīf, “loaf”). Cognate with Galician regueifa and Spanish regaifa.

• Hyphenation: re‧guei‧fa

regueifa f (plural regueifas)

1. a pastry of fine flour, kolach

• “regueifa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “regueifa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026