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Spanish
Etymology
Syncopic form of esmayado. Cognate with English dismay, Portuguese desmaiar. Doublet of desmayar
No conjugated forms of the possible verb desmayarse 'to be hungry' have been found. Most likely from the same root as desmayar and dismay but without the -dis suffix.
22-ii-1868 Jable (El Ómnibus, p.3) uses "estomagos desmayados" with the meaning of 'to be hungry', but later works differentiated between desmayar as 'faint' and esmayado as 'hungry'.
"Esmayalse" also attested
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /esmaˈʝao/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /esmaˈʃao/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /esmaˈʒao/
- Rhymes: -ao
- Syllabification: es‧ma‧ya‧o
Adjective
esmayao (feminine esmayaa, masculine plural esmayaos, feminine plural esmayaas)
- (Spain, colloquial) famished, hungry. Mainly used in southern Spanish dialects.
- esmallao (it's a colloquial word and the origin isn't clear, leading to pronunciation spelling)
- esmayado (without syncope)
- esmallado (pronunciation spelling without syncope)