forrar

Galician

Etymology

Circa 1370. From Old French forrer (“to furnish”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare English fodder), from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *pat- (“to feed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foˈraɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to line, to insert a lining
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     Et era forrado en pẽna armjña

     And it was lined in ermine fur

2. (transitive) to cover, to put a cover on
3. (transitive) to put a wedge under a wheel

Derived terms

• forra (“small stone used as filling; wedge”)
• forro (“cover”)

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “forrad”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “forrar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From forro (“lining”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuˈʁaɾ/
• Hyphenation: for‧rar

Verb

1. to line, to insert a lining
2. to cover, to put a cover on
3. to carpet

Etymology 2

From forro (“free”) +‎ -ar.

Verb

2. to save; to economize

Synonyms

• (to save): economizar, poupar

Derived terms

• forreta

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Spanish

Etymology

From French fourrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foˈraɾ/ [foˈraɾ]

Verb

1. (transitive) to line, cover the inside

   Synonym: aforrar

2. (transitive) to put a cover on a book
3. (transitive) to overlay
4. (reflexive, colloquial) to become rich, to make a killing
   • 2015 November 17, Carmen Pérez-Lanzac, “Las franquicias toman el centro”, in El País‎^[1]:

     ¿Logrará, como sueña, crear una red de locales? ¿Se forrará?

     Will she succeed in creating a network of locations, like she dreams of? Will she make a fortune?

   Synonym: enriquecerse

Derived terms

• forrado
• forro

Related terms

• aforrar
• forraje

Further reading

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