abalar

Galician

Pedra de abalar ("logan stone"), Muxía, Galicia

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese abalar (Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *advallare, from Latin vallis (“valley”), or from Late Latin ballāre (“to dance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aβaˈlaɾ/

Verb

1. (archaic) to move, to displace, to dislodge
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 939:

     Mays Éytor, cõmo era ualẽt, por esso nõ foy abalado nẽ mouudo da ssela

     But Hector, as he was a bold man, was not dislodged nor moved of his saddle

2. (transitive) to shake

   Synonym: sacudir

3. (transitive) to rock

   Synonyms: abanar, arrolar

4. (intransitive) to tide
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to rock

   Synonyms: abanar, arrolar

Related terms

• abalo
• abaladoira
• pedra de abalar

See also

• Pedra de abalar on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “abalar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “abalar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese abalar, from Vulgar Latin *advallāre, probably ultimately from Latin vallis (“vale, valley”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɐ.bɐ.ˈlaɾ/, [ɐ.βɐ.ˈlaɾ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧lar

Verb

1. to shake
2. to affect, unsettle, shock

Derived terms

• abalado

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam

References

• Sociedade de Língua Portuguesa (Portugal) (1970): Boletim, Volumes 21-23

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Turkish

Noun

1. plural of aba