bufar

• gufar

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /buˈfaɾ/, [buˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: bu‧far

bufar

1. to blow, to gust (the wind)
   • 1904, Pachín de Melás, La güelina‎:

     El aire gufaba... / gufaba con juerza; / rincaba gorbizos, / voltiaba la fueya...

     The air blew... / it blew strongly / it plucked heathers, / it turned over the leaf...

2. to snort (to exhale angrily through the nose)
   • 1987, Sabel de Fausta, Mercáu de vida, mercáu de muerte; Esperteyu‎:

     que yá nun cargaba cola collecha del maíz, les panoyes y los ñarbasos, camudáu por aquel otru carru de metal que gufaba pel motor qu'emburriaba d'él, y que'n vez de piensu xintaba un agua fediondo que los homes ñomaben "gasói",

     that no longer carried the corn harvest, the combs and the corn stalks, replaced by that other metal cart that snorted from the engine that was pulling it, and that instead of feed it ate a kind of smelly water that men called "gasoil"

   Synonym: runfiar

3. to overflow (a liquid when boling)

   Bufó tol lleche

   All of the milk overflowed

Onomatopoeic. Compare Valencian usage to Sardinian bufare.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [buˈfa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [buˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: bu‧far

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufí, past participle bufat)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to blow (on, away)
2. (transitive) to blow up, inflate
3. (reflexive) to blow up, puff up, expand
4. (reflexive, Valencia) to get drunk

   Synonym: embriagar-se

• bufar i fer ampolles

• “bufar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /buˈfaɾ/ [buˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: bu‧far

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufei, past participle bufado)

1. to blow (especially, to exhale roughly through the mouth)

   Synonym: soprar

2. to fart silently
3. (of cats) to hiss

• “bufar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bufar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “bufar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bufar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “bufar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Of onomatopoeic origin; compare Old French bouffer and Italian buffo.

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bufar

1. to blow
2. (of the wind) to gust; to blow

Onomatopoeic.

• Hyphenation: bu‧far

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufei, past participle bufado)

1. to blow

   Synonyms: soprar, bufir

2. (by extension) to boast

• bufa

• buffar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• buffer (Puter)
• boffar (Vallader)

Of onomatopoeic origin; compare Old French bouffer.

bufar

1. (Sutsilvan) to blow

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) sufflar
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) zuflar
• (Puter) zufler
• (Vallader) sofflar

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /buˈfaɾ/ [buˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bu‧far

bufar (first-person singular present bufo, first-person singular preterite bufé, past participle bufado)

1. (intransitive) to snort (to exhale angrily through the nose)

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