arrojar
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish arrojar.
Verb[edit]
arrojar (first-person singular present indicative arrojo, past participle arrojado)
- (transitive) to throw (cause an object to move rapidly through the air)
- (transitive) to drag
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to throw oneself
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to crawl
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, figuratively) to dare
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb arrojar
Synonyms[edit]
- (to throw): arremessar, lançar, deitar
- (to drag): arrastar
- (to dare): arriscar
Derived terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *arrot(u)lāre, *rotulāre, from Latin rotāre, from rotō (“I turn, I wheel”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
arrojar (first-person singular present arrojo, first-person singular preterite arrojé, past participle arrojado)
- (transitive) to throw, to hurl, to toss, to fling (cause an object to move rapidly through the air)
- (transitive) to emit (to send out or give off)
- Synonym: echar
- (transitive) to eject, to kick out (to compel (a person or persons) to leave)
- (transitive) to yield, to produce; to shed (light) on
- arrojar luz sobre ― to shed light on
- (transitive) to vomit
- Synonym: vomitar
Conjugation[edit]
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Portuguese: arrojar
Further reading[edit]
- “arrojar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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