blindar

Borrowed from French blinder, from blinde (“pieces of wood used as protection”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [blinˈda]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [blinˈdaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: blin‧dar

blindar (first-person singular present blindo, first-person singular preterite blindí, past participle blindat)

1. to armor
2. to shield, to encase, to protect

• blindatge

• “blindar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “blindar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “blindar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “blindar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

blindar

1. second/third-person singular active present indicative of blinda

blindar

1. present of blinda

blindar (first-person singular present blindo, first-person singular preterite blindei, past participle blindado)

1. (transitive) to shield, to armor

Borrowed from French blinder, from Proto-Germanic *blandijaną, which is related to English blind.

• IPA^(key): /blinˈdaɾ/ [blĩn̪ˈd̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: blin‧dar

blindar (first-person singular present blindo, first-person singular preterite blindé, past participle blindado)

1. (transitive) to shield, to armor
2. (figurative, transitive) to safeguard
   • 2018 January 26, Virginia López Enano, “El misterio de Canfranc: nazis, espías y oro”, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:

     Su historia es breve, pero por ella el pueblo se ha construido un nombre. Durante la II Guerra Mundial, España enviaba por sus railes wolframio y pirita para blindar el armamento nazi.

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