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• IPA^(key): /ˈraθa/ [ˈra.θa]
• Rhymes: -aθa
• Syllabification: ra‧za

raza f (plural races)

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

• Hyphenation: ra‧za

Attested since the late 15th century. Probably from Old Spanish raça, whose etymology is obscure.^[1]

raza m (plural razas)

1. race
2. breed

From Latin radius. Doublet of raio and raxo.

raza m (plural razas)

1. ray

   Synonym: raio

2. spoke
3. crack, fissure in the nails or hoofs of cows, horses or pigs

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “raça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raza”, 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), “raza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: ra‧za

raza f (plural razes)

1. race (group of people)

raza

1. Salaca form of razā (“fat”)

• Andreas Johan Sjögren, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1861), Livisch-deutsches und deutsch-livisches Wörterbuch
• Pajusalu, Karl & Winkler, Eberhard, Salis-livisches Wörterbuch (2009). Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia. Tallinn.

From Proto-West Germanic *hrātu, from Proto-Germanic *hrētō.

rāȥa f

1. honeycomb

• Middle High German: rāȥe f, rāȥ n
  • German: Roß, Rost, Roße (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /raza/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /raza/

raza f

1. alternative form of raz

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈra.za/

raza m inan

1. Middle Polish form of raz

• 𐴌𐴝𐴎𐴝 (raza) — Hanifi Rohingya script

raza (Hanifi spelling 𐴌𐴝𐴎𐴝)

1. king

• IPA^(key): [ˈraza]

raza f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of rază

• IPA^(key): /ˈraθa/ [ˈra.θa] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈrasa/ [ˈra.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθa (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -asa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: ra‧za
• Homophone: (Latin America) rasa

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

raza f (plural razas)

1. race, ethnicity

   La ascendencia compartida es lo que define a las razas.

   Shared ancestry is what defines races.

   la raza ― the people, mestizos (localism referring to the mixed-race population that is found throughout Latin America)

2. breed, strain, lineage

   ¿Cómo es que yo nunca he oído de esa raza de perro antes?

   How is it that I've never heard of that dog breed before?

3. (Mexico) people

   Synonym: gente

   ¿Qué opinan, raza?

   What do you guys think?

   • (Can we date this quote?), u/anarpi, Reddit‎^[3], archived from the original on 4 March 2026:

     La raza est[á] bien pendeja, prefieren culpar al Roblox que aceptar que la cagan como padres. [...]

     People are so stupid; they prefer to blame Roblox instead of accepting that they're failing as parents. [...]

4. (Mexico) group of friends or relatives

Inherited from Old Spanish raça, from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius.^[2] Probably a doublet of raya. Compare also Romanian rază (“ray of light”).

raza f (plural razas)

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

• “raza”, 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