chamar

English

Alternative forms

• chumar

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi चमार (camār, “tanner”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃəˈmɑː/

Noun

chamar (plural chamars)

1. A member of a Hindu caste who works in leather; a tanner or leather-worker.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Sending of Dana Da’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, page 419:

     It is not strictly a native patent, though chamars of the skin and hide castes can, if irritated, despatch a Sending which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly kills him.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese chamar, from Latin clāmāre, present active infinitive of clamō (“cry out”).

Verb

1. to call; to refer to (by name)

   Chámome Alejandro e nacín en 1953. — "I am called Alejandro and was born in 1953."

2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of chamar
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of chamar

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese chamar (“call”), from Latin clamāre, present active infinitive of clamō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”). Compare Spanish llamar. Doublet of clamar, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ.ˈmaɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ.ˈma(ʁ)/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): [ʃɐ.ˈma(ɹ)], [ʃɐ.ˈma(ɾ)]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [ʃa.ˈma(ɻ)], [ʃa.ˈma(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): [ʃɐ.ˈma(χ)]
  • (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [ʃɐ.ˈma(h)]

Verb

1. (transitive) to call; to summon (to ask someone to come)

   Há uma partida amanhã, chamem seus amigos.

   There is a match tomorrow, call your friends.

2. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to call (to use as the name of)

   Os botânicos chamam aquele tipo de árvore de gimnosperma.

   Botanists call that type of tree a gymnosperm.

3. (ditransitive, copulative with de for the second object) to call (to verbally ascribe someone a quality)

   chamaram-me de feio na escola.

   They called me ugly at school.

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive) to be called (to have a specific name)

   Olá, me chamo Pedro.

   Hi, I’m called Peter.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chamar.

Synonyms

• (to give a name): nomear, denominar, designar
• (to summon): clamar, invocar, convocar

Related terms

• chamada, chamado, chamador, chamamento
• chamariz, chamarisco