levada

levada (plural levadas)

1. An irrigation channel or aqueduct specific to the Portuguese Atlantic region of Madeira.

• Valade, avaled

From agua levada (literally “conducted water”).

• IPA^(key): /leˈβaða̝/

levada f (plural levadas)

1. aqueduct or canal
   • 1447, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 572:

     "moiño do Cangado" "con toda sua casa e pedra e con todas suas levadas e presas e augas"

     "mill of the Cangado" "with all of its building and stone and ducts and dams and waters"

   Synonyms: cal, canle

• Augalevada
• Levada

• levar

levada f sg

1. feminine singular of levado

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

levada

1. feminine singular of levado

levada f sg

1. feminine singular of levado

• IPA^(key): /leˈbada/ [leˈβ̞a.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: le‧va‧da

levada f (uncountable)

1. The lower-quality fibers separated out during hackling.

levada f sg

1. feminine singular of levado

• “levada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014