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• maranha (reintegrationist)

Unknown. First attested in the 14th century; probably from a substrate language; perhaps related to French baragne (“hedge, net”).[1]

• IPA(key): /maˈɾaɲa/ [maˈɾa.ɲɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧ña

maraña f (plural marañas)

1. skein of crude flax or tow yarn
   Synonyms: madeixa, meada
   • 1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:
     acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido
     you'll find at my in home in my chest fifty yards of cloth with are woven and five skeins of crude yarn and three of whitened ones
2. brushwood; underbrush
   Synonym: broza
3. (botany) green algae of species Cladophora rupestris

• marañón
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “maraña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “maraña”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maraña”, 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), “maraña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “maraña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “maraña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Uncertain. Possibly Paleo-Hispanic. Compare Galician maraña.

• IPA(key): /maˈɾaɲa/ [maˈɾa.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: ma‧ra‧ña

maraña f (plural marañas)

1. tangle, muddle, jumble, snarl
2. thicket

• enmarañar

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

• “maraña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025