cinchar

cinchar (first-person singular indicative present cincho, past participle cincháu)

1. to girth

From Old Galician-Portuguese çinllar (compare cincha).

• IPA^(key): /θinˈt͡ʃaɾ/, (western) /sinˈt͡ʃaɾ/

cinchar (first-person singular present cincho, first-person singular preterite cinchei, past participle cinchado)

1. to girth
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 101:

     primeiramente pararas o Cauallo en lugar caente et caenta enno fogo pedras, et lançaas so o uentre do Cauallo, et Cubri o Cauallo de hũa cuberta de llãa, et llança sobre aquellas pedras agooa caente tanto que as faças fumegar en gisa que se uolua o Cauallo en suuor todo. Et depois çinllalle aquella cuberta, et este asesegado naqel lugar ataa que se cunsuma toda a suur del

     first, you shall take the horse to a hot place, and heat on the fire some stones, and put them under the horse's belly, and cover the horse with a wool coverture, and pour over that stones hot water so that they steam in order that the horse covers in sweat. Then girth that coverture to the horse, and let he be in calm at that place till his sweat dries

• cincha
• cincho

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çinll”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cinchar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cinchar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cinchar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cinchar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From cincha +‎ -ar, or cincho +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θinˈt͡ʃaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sinˈt͡ʃaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cin‧char

cinchar (first-person singular present cincho, first-person singular preterite cinché, past participle cinchado)

1. (equestrianism) to girth
2. to girdle

• “cinchar”, 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