esbategar
Catalan
editEtymology
editFrom esbatre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editesbategar (first-person singular present esbatego, first-person singular preterite esbateguí, past participle esbategat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/
- (transitive, intransitive) to beat wildly, to flap, to thrash
- 1927, Josep Maria Folch i Torres, Les aventures d'en Boi Delit o el braçalet de Marciana:
- Havia estat potser l'esbategar d'ales d'algun aligot, o el pas furient d'un cabirol entre la brossa.
- Perhaps it had been the beating of wings of some buzzard, or the impetuous passage of a roe deer through the brush.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of esbategar (first conjugation, g-gu alternation)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “esbategar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.