escamar

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From escama (scale; flake) +‎ -ar.

Verb

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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

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Alternative form of escamnar, influenced by Spanish escamar.

Verb

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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)
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Etymology 3

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From es- +‎ cama (leg) +‎ -ar.

Verb

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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

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Etymology

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

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Verb

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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. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to back down

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From escama (scale; flake) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

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

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Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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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