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xerrar
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Catalan
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, compare Aragonese charrar and Occitan charrar, with almost the same pronunciation, and Spanish charlar.
Pronunciation
Verb
xerrar (first-person singular present xerro, first-person singular preterite xerrí, past participle xerrat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
- (intransitive) to chat, to chatter
- (transitive) to blab, to let slip, to reveal
- Va xerrar que havia tengut un fill amb un torero.
- She let slip that she had had a son with a bullfighter.
- (intransitive) to chatter, to chirp (of birds)
- Synonym: xerrotejar
- Els lloros xerren molt. ― Parrots chatter a lot.
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Further reading
- “xerrar”, 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
- “xerrar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “xerrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “xerrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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