librar

• alibrar
• livrar, alivrar (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /liˈbɾaɾ/ [liˈβ̞ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: li‧brar

From Old Galician-Portuguese livrar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin līberāre, present active infinitive of līberō. Doublet of liberar, which was borrowed. Cognate with Portuguese livrar and Spanish librar.

librar (first-person singular present libro, first-person singular preterite librei, past participle librado)

1. (transitive) to empty

   Synonyms: baleirar, desocupar

   Vamos librar este almacén ― Let's empty this warehouse

2. (archaic) to give birth; to help to give birth
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun or intransitive, of cows) to expel the placenta
4. (intransitive) to fit

   Synonym: caber

   Dálle que libra! (meme) ― Go on, [the car] fits!

5. (transitive with de) to save, spare, free, acquit, exempt
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get out

   Synonym: zafar

7. (intransitive) to hurry, rush in finishing

From Latin līberāre, present active infinitive of lībrō.

librar (first-person singular present libro, first-person singular preterite librei, past participle librado)

1. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to balance, equilibrate

   Synonyms: balancear, equilibrar

2. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to suspend, to hang

   Synonyms: suspender, pairar

3. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to cause to oscillate
4. (transitive, takes a reflexive pronoun) to substantiate, base in

   Synonyms: fundamentar, basear

• librar a boria

• equilibrar

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

Borrowed from French libraire, Latin librārius.

librar m (plural librari)

1. bookseller

• librărie

• carte

Inherited from Latin līberāre. Doublet of liberar, which was borrowed.

• IPA^(key): /liˈbɾaɾ/ [liˈβ̞ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: li‧brar

librar (first-person singular present libro, first-person singular preterite libré, past participle librado)

1. (transitive) to save, to rescue, to deliver, to preserve

   Synonyms: salvar, rescatar

2. to free, to exempt
3. (transitive) to place, to put (hope, trust)
4. (transitive) to issue (a check, a decree)
5. to make (an appointment)
6. (transitive) to wage, to engage (battle, war)
   • 2022 February 25, Manuel G. Pascual, “La ciberguerra de Rusia contra Ucrania nunca ha acabado [Russia's cyberwar against Ukraine never ended]”, in El País‎:

     En el entorno digital se libran batallas silenciosas, sin disparos ni muertos, pero capaces de dejar sin calefacción a miles de personas […]

     In the digital environment, silent wars are waged, without gunfire or deaths, but capable of leaving thousands without heat […]

7. (intransitive) to give birth

   Synonym: parir

8. (intransitive) to expel the placenta
9. (intransitive) to be free; to get off

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