amarrar

Catalan

Verb

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarrí, past participle amarrat)

1. to moor
2. to tie

Further reading

• “amarrar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old French amarrer (“to moor”), from Middle Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *mairją (“mooring post”).

Verb

1. to moor
   • 1432, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69:

     que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela

     nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it

2. to tie
3. to catch

Synonyms

• (to tie): atar

Derived terms

• amarra (“rope”)
• amarradoiro (“mooring post”)

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “amarr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “amarrar” 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French amarrer, from Dutch aanmeren (“to tie or anchor the boat at the quay”).

Verb

1. to moor
2. to tie

Derived terms

• amarra

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Spanish

Etymology

From French amarrer (“to moor”), borrowed from Dutch aanmeren (“to tie or anchor the boat at the quay”).

The Dutch aanmeren comes from aan- +‎ meren (“to moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mairōną, from Proto-Germanic *mairją (“mooring post”), likely formed as Proto-Indo-European *(H)moi- (“to strengthen”) +‎ *ro- similarly to Latin mūrus (“defensive wall”), see *mey-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaˈraɾ/ [a.maˈraɾ]

Verb

1. to moor

   Antonym: desamarrar

2. to tie

   Synonym: atar

Derived terms

• amarra
• amarradero
• amarrador
• amarrete
• desamarrar

Further reading

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