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escamar

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From escama (scale; flake) + -ar.

Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)

  1. (transitive) to flake (to break or chip off in a flake)
  2. (transitive, Valencia) to scale (to remove the scales of)
    Synonym: escatar
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Etymology 2

Alternative form of escamnar, influenced by Spanish escamar.

Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)

  1. (transitive, Valencia) to scold
    Synonyms: renyar, (Valencian) bonegar
  2. (transitive, Valencia) alternative form of escamnar (to teach a lesson)
  3. (transitive, Valencia) alternative form of escamnar (to make suspicious; to make distrust)
Conjugation

Etymology 3

From es- + cama (leg) + -ar.

Verb

escamar

  1. (Balearic) only used in s'... escamar, syntactic variant of escamar-se, infinitive of escamar-se (to escape; to run around)

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escamar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from escama + -ar.

Pronunciation

Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)

  1. (transitive) to scale (to remove the scales of)
  2. (transitive) to scald
    Synonym: escaldar
  3. (transitive) to clean and separate the peritoneum from the innards of a slaughtered animal
  4. (transitive) to cause mistrust
  5. (pronominal) to back down

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Portuguese

Etymology

From escama (scale; flake) + -ar.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [is.kaˈma(h)], /es.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [es.kaˈma(h)]
 

Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)

  1. to scale (remove the scales from a fish)

Conjugation

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Spanish

Etymology

From escama + -ar; partly derived from Latin dēsquamāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eskaˈmaɾ/ [es.kaˈmaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: es‧ca‧mar

Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamé, past participle escamado)

  1. to remove the scales from
  2. to make distrustful
  3. (colloquial) to frighten

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