raia

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) stripe
2. (feminine) border (the line or frontier area separating countries)
3. (feminine, figuratively) limit
4. (colloquial, feminine) mistake

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of raiar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of raiar:

Hyphenated as

rai‧a

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʁaj.ɐ/

Etymology

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).