esbatanar
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From de bat a bat (“wide [open]”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
esbatanar (first-person singular present esbatano, first-person singular preterite esbataní, past participle esbatanat)
- (transitive) to open wide
- 1965, Jaume Berenguer Amenós, Alexis Zorbàs:
- Un vell, que vorejava la seixantena, molt alt, magre, d'ulls esbatanats, tenia encastat el nas al vidre i em mirava.
- An old man, verging on sixty, very tall, thin, eyes wide open, had his nose pressed to the glass and watched me.
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of esbatanar (first conjugation)