raza

See also: Raza, rază, raža, ražā, and rażą

Asturian

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ra‧za

Noun

raza f (plural races)

  1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)

Ladin

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ra‧za

Noun

raza f (plural razes)

  1. race (group of people)

Livonian

Alternative forms
  • (Courland) razā

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rasva.

Noun

raza

  1. fat

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • (Castiliian) IPA(key): /ˈraθa/
  • (Latin America) IPA(key): /ˈrasa/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧za
  • Homophone: rasa (Latin-America)

Etymology 1

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Italian razza (compare other Romance cognates such as French race, Catalan, Occitan, and Portuguese raça).[1]

Noun

raza f (plural razas)

  1. race, ethnicity
    La raza — the people, mestizo (to denote national pride)
  2. breed, strain, lineage

Etymology 2

From Old Spanish raça, from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius[2]. Probably a doublet of raya.

Noun

raza f (plural razas)

  1. cleft, fissure
  2. beam of light, ray of light
  3. crack (in a horse’s hoof)
  4. stripe

References
  1. Real Academia Española
  2. https://www.scribd.com/document/220768067/Corominas-Diccionario-Etimologico
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