baralla

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈɾa.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈɾa.ʎa]

Deverbal from barallar.

baralla f (plural baralles)

1. quarrel (heated dispute)
   • 2021 February 16, “Editorial”, in El Temps, number 1914, →ISSN, page 5:

     Els partits independentistes, tot i ser víctimes del context, també s'han caracteritzat pels retrets continus i per les baralles insubstancials, així com per acusacions amb intencions clarament electoralistes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (card games) pack (of cards)

• baralla de galls

baralla

1. inflection of barallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “baralla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “baralla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “baralla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• baralha (reintegrationist)

13th century. From Hispanic Medieval Latin baralia (“dispute, discussion, quarrel, litigation”) and baraliare (“to plead, to sue”),^[1] of unknown origin.^[2] Given its presence in local toponimy in composition with the element -bre (from Proto-Celtic *brixs, "fort; hill") it probably proceeds from Paleo-Hispanic.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɾaʎa̝/

baralla f (plural barallas)

1. quarrel, disorder, uproar
2. (dated) talk

   Con xente que non coñezas non gastes moita baralla; porque, se a gastas, dirá que algo de xuízo che marra (folk song)

   With strangers don't be too verbose, because, if you do, they'll think that you lack some good judgement

3. (dated) conflict
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 53:

     começauã ja avíj́r entre elles contẽdas et barallas [sobrelas] herdades et gãados que criauã

     there was beginning to be contentions and conflicts between them because of the properties and cattle that they bred

4. deck (of cards)

With the meaning "deck of cards", the Spanish loanword baraxa is vulgarly used instead of baralla; this use is proscribed by the Real Academia Galega.

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “baralla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “baralla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “baralla”, 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), “baralla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “baralla”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “baralla”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

baralla

1. inflection of barallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative