embate

Estonian

Verb

embate

second-person plural present indicative of embama

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.t͡ʃi/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.te/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽˈba.tɨ/

Rhymes: (Brazil) -at͡ʃi, (Portugal) -atɨ
Hyphenation: em‧ba‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from embater.

Noun

embate m (plural embates)

collision; crash
Synonym: colisão
(figuratively) conflict; clash
Synonym: conflito
(figuratively, politics) opposition; resistance
Synonym: oposição
- 2015 December 3, Maria Lopes, Nuno Sá Lourenço, Sofia Rodrigues, “Costa anuncia 13 medidas no seu primeiro debate”, in Público:
  O segundo debate sobre um programa de Governo desta legislatura trouxe ontem ao Parlamento um primeiro-ministro municiado para o embate com uma mão cheia de medidas políticas.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Verb

embate

inflection of embater:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Noun

embate m (plural embates)

bashing, beating
(military) attack
(nautical) imbat (strong sea breeze in summer)

Further reading

“embate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 351

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