follar

Catalan

Etymology

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin fullāre (“to speed up”), according to the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, or from a derivative of fullō,; or from Latin follis (“bellows”), according to the Real Academia Española.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

follar (first-person singular present follo, first-person singular preterite follí, past participle follat)

1. (vulgar) to fuck
2. to speed up grapes to make wine

Synonyms

• (to fuck):

Vulgar:

• cardar
• fotre
• fer un clau
• fotre un clau
• tirar-se (transitive)

Template:mid2 Euphemisms:

• jaure/jeure (obsolete)
• fúmer/fumbre

Archaism:

• posseir (transitive)

• (to speed up grapes to make wine): trepitjar

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Spanish

Etymology

Probably from Latin follis (“bellows”) (whence English folly and fool), according to the Real Academia Española, among others. Less likely is Vulgar Latin fullāre (“to speed up”) (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fullo), according to the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /foˈʝaɾ/ [foˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /foˈʝaɾ/ [foˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /foˈʎaɾ/ [foˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /foˈʃaɾ/ [foˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /foˈʒaɾ/ [foˈʒaɾ]

Verb

1. (vulgar, Spain, also reflexive) to fuck

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder

2. to blow with a bellows

   Synonym: soplar

3. to compose something in sheets
4. to trample

   Synonym: hollar

Derived terms

• follador
• folladora
• hollar
• o follamos todos, o la puta al río
• que te folle un pez
• que te follen

 

Related terms

• follón
• fuelle
• holgar
• holgazán
• huelga
• melafo