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Meaning of batalla | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
baˈtaɟa

Definitions

  1. battle
    feminine
  2. Equivalent to 'battle': A habitational surname from Middle English from places in England that have been sites of a battle.

Equivalents

English battle

Examples

“os quales diñeiros gastei en desenbargar os bees e terras que meu señor padre enpeñou a payo gomez de soutomayor vasallo do Rey e señor que foi da casa forte de lantaño para a costa que tebo ennas sahidas que fiso con os demais fidalgos da terra en compañia do señor arçobispo e perlado de santiago don lope de mendoza tio de dona maior de mendoza moller que foi do dito payo gomez contra os mouros da andaluçia fasta que se ganou a cibdad de antequeira ao Rey mouro de granada de chamamento do señor infante don fernando, e tamen enna sahida que eu fise de chamamento de seu sobriño noso señor el Rey don joan e de mandado de meu señor padre en lugar del cando se ganou dos mouros a grande batalla da figeira en donde tamen perdin e me mataron o cabalo e eu sahin ben librado enpero ben ferido de hua saetada enno braço dereito que non a vin curada fasta pasados ben tres meses”

said money I spent in redeeming the assets and lands that my father pawned to Paio Gómez de Soutomaior, vassal of the King and late lord of the stronghold of Lataño, for the expenses he had in the expeditions that he did together with the other noblemen of the country, in the company of the lord archbishop and prelate of Santiago Don Lope de Mendoza, uncle of lady Maior de Mendoza, late wife of said Paio Gómez, against the Moors of Andalusia until the city of Antequera was won from the Moor king of Granada, thanks to the call of lord Prince Don Fernando; and also in the expeditions I did at the call of his nephew our king Don Xoán, at the orders of my father and instead of him, when the great Battle of the Figtree was won to the Moors, where I lost and they killed my horse and I got out safe but badly injured of an arrow shot in the right arm, wound that I saw not cured until more than three months later

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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