samartín

• samartinu (Patsuezu, Valdés)

From Samartín, from san + Martín "Saint Martin", in reference to the festivity where pigs are traditionally butchered every year.

• IPA^(key): /samaɾˈtin/ [sa.maɾˈt̪ĩŋ]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: sa‧mar‧tín

samartín m (plural samartinos)

1. yearly slaughter of pigs
   • 1910, Ismael Quiroga, El degorriu de los automóviles, Oviedo:

     Cuando el tomó, vil fizo el Samartín del mió gochu, viénome con el llibrín de les 'conomíes

     When he took it, he evilly did the slaughter of my pig, he came with the little economics book

2. the pig meat resultant from this slaughter
   • 1926, Pepín de Pría, Nel y flor, los dos rapazos‎^[1] (poem):

     pos había llechi, mantega,
     un bon samartín colgando
     y guardaos na masera
     tienros molletes de trigu,
     de lo que güey non se preba

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. ruckus; uproar

   Synonyms: trebolgu, xaréu

4. (dialectal, West) November

   Synonym: payares

5. John Dory (fish)

• “samartín”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “samartín”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN