amarrar

Borrowed from French amarrer, from Middle Dutch aanmeren (“to berth”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.məˈra]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.maˈraɾ]

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarrí, past participle amarrat)

1. to moor
2. to tie

• amarrada
• amarrador
• amarratge

• “amarrar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “amarrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old French amarrer (“to moor”), from Middle Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *mairją (“mooring post”).[1]

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarrei, past participle amarrado)

1. to moor
   • 1432, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69:

     que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela

     nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it

2. to tie

   Synonym: atar

3. to catch

• amarra (“rope”)
• amarradoiro (“mooring post”)

• “amarrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “amarr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “amarrar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “amarrar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “amarrar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “amarrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from French amarrer, from Dutch aanmeren (“to tie or anchor the boat at the quay”).

• Hyphenation: a‧mar‧rar

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarrei, past participle amarrado)

1. (nautical) to moor
2. to tie (to fasten with ropes, thread, wire, chains, etc.)

   Por favor, amarre a corda aqui.

   Please tie the rope here.

3. (Brazil, colloquial, reflexive, followed by "em") to love, to like very much

   Eu me amarro em filmes de ação.

   I love action movies.

   (literally, “I tie myself into action movies.”)

• amarra

Borrowed from French amarrer (“to moor”), borrowed from Dutch aanmeren (“to tie or anchor the boat at the quay”).

The Dutch aanmeren comes from aan- +‎ meren (“to moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mairōną, from Proto-Germanic *mairją (“mooring post”), likely formed as Proto-Indo-European *(H)moi- (“to strengthen”) +‎ *ro- similarly to Latin mūrus (“defensive wall”), see *mey-.

• IPA^(key): /amaˈraɾ/ [a.maˈraɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ma‧rrar

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarré, past participle amarrado)

1. to tie

   Synonym: atar

2. to moor

   Antonyms: desamarrar, atracar

• “amarrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014