See also: vóar and vôar

Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese voar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin volāre (to fly). Compare Portuguese voar and Spanish volar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /boˈaɾ/ [boˈaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: vo‧ar

Verb

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voar (first-person singular present voo, first-person singular preterite voei, past participle voado)

  1. to fly
  2. to pass rapidly
  3. (transitive) to blow up, detonate, explode
    • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 137:
      Et aly veeriades escudos quebrãtar et lanças voar en peças
      And there you would see shields to break and spears to blow up in pieces
  4. (figurative) to escape; to loss
    • c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:
      Váian ao inferno a beber,
      Que a min ben me xiringaron
      E, entre mangas e riostras,
      Trecentos reás vöaron.
      Débenme, Dios sabe canto,
      O menos trint’e set’olas
      E coidaban os larpeiros
      De pagarmas con parolas.
      Let them go to Hell to drink,
      because they harmed me very much
      and, among other things,
      three hundred reals flew away.
      They owe me God knows how much,
      at least a hundred and fifty gallons,
      and the gluttons thought of
      paying me with banter.

Conjugation

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin volāre (to fly).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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voar

  1. to fly

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Galician: voar
  • Portuguese: voar

Further reading

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese voar, from Latin volāre (to fly).[1][2] Compare Galician voar and Spanish volar.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /voˈa(ʁ)/ [voˈa(h)], /vuˈa(ʁ)/ [vʊˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ʁ)/ [ˈvwa(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /voˈa(ɾ)/, /vuˈa(ɾ)/ [vʊˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /voˈa(ʁ)/ [voˈa(χ)], /vuˈa(ʁ)/ [vʊˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ʁ)/ [ˈvwa(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /voˈa(ɻ)/, /vuˈa(ɻ)/ [vʊˈa(ɻ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ɻ)/
 

  • Hyphenation: vo‧ar

Verb

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voar (first-person singular present voo, first-person singular preterite voei, past participle voado)

  1. to fly

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ voar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ voar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

Scots

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Etymology

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From Norn vår, from Old Norse vár, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥.

Noun

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voar

  1. spring (season)