bregar

• abregar
• brear (Cabu Peñes, Cabranes)
• briar (Cabrales)

From Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

bregar (first-person singular indicative present brego, past participle bregáu)

1. to flatten the bread dough (using a bregadera)

   Synonym: gramar

2. (by extension) to work hard, to toil, struggle

   Synonyms: esporiar, esporitiar, estomexar

   • 1925, Pepín de Pría, La sardinera‎:

     De tantu como cuerre, brega y trabaya

     He runs so much that he struggles and works

3. to hit, thrash, thwack

   Synonyms: zurrar, zacurrir, zagurrar, azotar, calentar, cascar, crismar, cruñir, cutir

• bregadera
• bregador
• brega
• bregaderu

• “bregar” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

From Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

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

bregar (first-person singular present brego, first-person singular preterite breguí, past participle bregat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (intransitive) to fight, to struggle
2. (transitive) to scrub
3. (transitive) to brake (to crush the stems of flax or hemp in order to separate the fibers)

• brega
• bregada
• bregador

• “bregar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

• IPA^(key): /bɾeˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bre‧gar

bregar (first-person singular present brego, first-person singular preterite bregué, past participle bregado)

1. to toil, struggle
2. (literary) to fight
3. (Puerto Rico) to deal with

• “bregar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10