doar

From Old Galician-Portuguese dõar, from Latin donāre, present active infinitive of dōnō (“I give”).

• IPA^(key): /doˈaɾ/

doar (first-person singular present doo, first-person singular preterite doei, past participle doado)

1. to present
2. to give
3. to donate

• “doar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “doar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “doar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

doar

1. Alternative form of doer

• do n

doar m or n

1. indefinite masculine plural of do

From Old Galician-Portuguese doar, dõar, from Latin donāre.

• Hyphenation: do‧ar

doar (first-person singular present doo, first-person singular preterite doei, past participle doado)

1. (transitive) to present
2. (transitive) to give
3. (transitive) to donate

• “doar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “doar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “doar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “doar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “doar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “doar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• doară

Probably from a reduction of the variant form doară, itself probably from Latin dē hōrā. Alternative etymologies include a Vulgar Latin construction *de volat, alteration of dē velit, or that it perhaps resulted from confusion with oare, with an interrogative function, or simply that it derives from a variant of dar (“but”).

• IPA^(key): /do̯ar/
• Rhymes: -ar

doar

1. just, only, merely

   Este doar un copil. ― He is only a child.

   Doar vreau niște lapte. ― I just want some milk.

2. (informal, in explanations) obviously, as is plain to see, after all

   că doar ― because obviously, for the obvious reason that…

   Cum să nu fie cald? Doar e vară.

   Why wouldn’t it be hot? It’s summer after all.

   Gustă, (că) doar nu mori!

   Taste it, it won’t kill you!

   Meseria asta e bine plătită, (că) doar altfel nimeni n-ar mai vrea s-o facă.

   This profession is well paid, nobody would want to do it otherwise after all.

3. (informal, in rhetorical questions and exclamations) surely

   Cum de ești acasă? Doar n-ai terminat așa de devreme cu școala!

   Why are you at home? Surely you didn’t finish school this early!

   Doar nu e așa de rău, nu?

   Surely it can’t be that bad, right?

Sense one takes sentence stress, sense two is unstressed.

• (only): decât, numai

• doar-doar
• fără doar și poate

• doar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Old Frisian dure, dore, from Proto-West Germanic *dur.

• IPA^(key): /doə̯r/

doar c (plural doarren, diminutive doarke)

1. door

• “doar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011