clariana

Perhaps from an earlier unattested *clarizanda, from a similarly unattested *clarizar (“to become clear”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [klə.ɾiˈa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kla.ɾiˈa.na]

clariana f (plural clarianes)

1. space, clearing, opening (between clouds, between trees in a wood, etc.)
   • 1975, Marià Manent, El vent de Maia:

     D'una clariana dels núvols grisos sortien raigs de sol oblics, a la manera de Gustau Doré.

     From an opening in the grey clouds, oblique rays of sunlight fell in the style of Gustave Doré.

• “clariana”, 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