mollar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese mollar (13th century), from Vulgar Latin *molliāre, from Latin molliō, mollīre (“I soften”) (influenced by mollia), from mollis (“soft”). Cognate with Portuguese molhar and Spanish mojar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈʎaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to wet; to moisten
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 231:

     Et as rruas erã moy grãdes, de hũa parte et da outra, et erã feytas per grande engeño, et erã de suso cubertas de bóueda, et juso erã estradas per poyaes de boa pedra laurada, que ia tãto nõ chouj́a que home y podesse mollar o pe.

     And the streets were wide, in one side and the other, and were made with great ingenuity, and they were vaulted in the ceiling, and down they were paved with large squared stones, so that no matter how much it rained no one would wet his foot there

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get wet (to come into contact with water)

Antonyms

• secar

Derived terms

• mollado
• molladura
• mollar a palabra (“to drink while chatting”, literally “to wet the word”)
• mollar a palleta (“to drink”, literally “to wet the reed (bagpipe mouthpiece)”)
• mollo
• remollar
• remollo

References

• “mollar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mollar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mollar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

Etymology

From muelle.

Pronunciation

•  

• IPA^(key): /moˈʝaɾ/ [moˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /moˈʝaɾ/ [moˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /moˈʎaɾ/ [moˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /moˈʃaɾ/ [moˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /moˈʒaɾ/ [moˈʒaɾ]

• Hyphenation: mo‧llar

Adjective

mollar m or f (masculine and feminine plural mollares)

1. mushy, soft, easy to peel
2. cushy
3. gullible