acañar

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Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Perhaps a derivative of Latin canis (dog) (compare Occitan canha, "bitch").[1] Cognate with Portuguese acanhar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /akaˈɲaɾ/ [ɑ.kɑˈɲaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: a‧ca‧ñar

Verb

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acañar (first-person singular present acaño, first-person singular preterite acañei, past participle acañado)

  1. (transitive) to catch someone who is fleeing
  2. (transitive, figurative) to oppress
    Synonyms: asoballar, esmagar, oprimir
    • 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:
      Todos temos, meu amigo,
      De esa mesma lan un sayo,
      E nunca vin esta terra
      Tan acañada de cartos:
      Aféllas que ja coidei
      Que tamen vos dera o frato
      De camiñar entre os mozos
      Que ja pra Cáis embarcaron
      all of we have, my friend,
      of that same wool a robe,
      and have never seen this country
      so deprived of money:
      In good faith I thought
      that you also had the attack
      of walking among the young ones
      that embarked for Cadiz
  3. (transitive, figurative) to humiliate, embarrass
    Synonyms: asoballar, vexar

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. acañar.