agafar

• gafar

agafar (first-person singular indicative present agafo, past participle agafáu)

1. to become inflamed (a wound)

From a- +‎ Old Catalan gafar, the latter from a Germanic source possibly meaning 'hook', from which also German Gabel (“fork”), Swedish gaffel.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

agafar (first-person singular present agafo, first-person singular preterite agafí, past participle agafat)

1. to take, hold

   Synonym: prendre

2. to pick up
3. to grasp
4. to catch, seize
5. to catch, take (a vehicle)
6. (pronominal) to hold on

• agafar-se

• “agafar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “agafar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “agafar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “agafar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.