fazaña
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See also: Fažana
Asturian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fazaña f (plural fazañes)
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese façanna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old Spanish fazaña, from Andalusian Arabic حَسَنَة (ḥasana) with influence of fazer (“to do”), from Arabic حَسَنَة (ḥasana, “good deed”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fazaña m (plural fazañas)
References[edit]
- “façanna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “façanna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “fazaña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “fazaña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- ^ “hazaña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Old Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic حَسَنَة (ḥasana, “good deed, alms”), from the root ح س ن (ḥ-s-n), compare Old Galician-Portuguese façanna. Coromines and Pascual suggest influence of fazer, from Latin facere. Such a derivation would help explain the voiced /dz/ of the Old Spanish term, already attested with -z- in the 12th and 13th centuries, including its first attestation by 1150.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fazaña f
- feat, deed
- Synonym: proeza
- betw. 1246-1252, Gonzalo de Berceo, Los Milagros de nuestra Señora , (ed. by Claudio García Turza, 1992, Madrid: Espasa-Calple):
- Nuncua de preste oí atal fazaña.
- Never have I ever heard such a feat by a priest.
- Nuncua de preste oí atal fazaña.
- example, model
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: hazaña
Further reading[edit]
- “fazaña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “hazaña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 332-334
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