chamar

• chamaar, choomar, chumar

Borrowed from Hindi चमार (camār).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃəˈmɑː/

chamar (plural chamars)

1. A member of a tribe who works in leather and agriculture; a tanner or leather-worker.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 419:

     It is not strictly a native patent, though chamars of the skin and hide castes can, if irritated, despatch a Sending which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly kills him.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chamar, from Latin clāmāre (“to cry out”). Compare Portuguese chamar and Spanish llamar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈmaɾ/

chamar (first-person singular present chamo, first-person singular preterite chamei, past participle chamado)

1. to call; to refer to (by name)

   Chámome Alejandro e nacín en 1953 ― "I am called Alejandro and was born in 1953"

2. (transitive) to call, summon

   Quen chama? ― "Who's calling?"

3. (intransitive) to call, summon
   • 2016, Malandrómeda, Chegar e encher :

     Cando voltei, cheguei e enchín,
     choran os problemas e chaman por min;
     non sei moi ben se hoxe vou ser quen
     de pasar de lado como se non fora comigo

     When I came back, and pulled it off at the first attempt
     the troubles cry and call me;
     I'm not sure if today I'll be capable
     of passing by as if that's not me

   Chama por ela ― "Call her"

4. to invoke

   Synonym: invocar

5. (transitive) to goad; to steer, guide (the cattle, a yoke)

   Synonym: afalar

• rechamar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chamar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chamar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chamar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin clāmāre (“to cry out”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ˈmaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

chamar

1. to call; to refer to (by name)
2. to call, to name, to denominate
3. (pronominal) to be called (to have a specific name)

• chamado

• Galician: chamar
• Portuguese: chamar (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "chamar"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chamar, from Latin clamāre (“to cry out”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”). Doublet of clamar, a learned borrowing. Cognate with Galician chamar and Spanish llamar.

• (Brazil Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ.ˈma(h)/, /ʃɐ̃.ˈma(h)/

• Audio (Porto, Portugal):

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• Hyphenation: cha‧mar

chamar (first-person singular present chamo, first-person singular preterite chamei, past participle chamado)

1. (transitive) to call; to summon (to ask someone to come)

   Synonyms: clamar, invocar, convocar

   Há uma partida amanhã, chamem os seus/vossos amigos.

   There is a match tomorrow, call your friends.

2. (transitive) to call, to name (to use as the name of)

   Os botânicos chamam àquele tipo de árvore (de) gimnosperma.

   Botanists call that type of tree a gymnosperm.

   chamar alguém de verdadeiro amigo ― to call someone a true friend

   • Deus chamou à luz dia, e às trevas chamou noite.

     God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.

3. (transitive, derogatory) to call, to label

   Eles o chamaram de idiota, de mentiroso.

   They called him an idiot, a liar.

   Chamaram-me feio na escola.

   They called me ugly at school.

4. (pronominal, transitive) to be called (to have a specific name)

   Synonyms: nomear, denominar, designar

   Olá, chamo-me Pedro.

   Hi, I’m called Peter.

   • 2012, Luís Fernando Veríssimo, “O conselheiro”, in Diálogos Impossíveis, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Objetiva, →ISBN, page 13:

     João riu muito quando a Heleninha contou que tinha um ursinho de estimação, sem o qual não saberia viver, e que ele se chamava Tedi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcama
• Macanese: chomâ

• “chamar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “chamar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025