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Meaning of cebada | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
θeˈbada

Definitions

  1. barley
    feminine
  2. Equivalent to 'Barley': A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.

Equivalents

English Barley

Examples

“dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas”

you'll give this monastery's abbess a dinner each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this dinner a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

CEFR level

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

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