esquilar

esquilar (first-person singular indicative present esquilo, past participle esquiláu)

1. (Eastern Asturian) Alternative form of esguilar

Inherited from Old Catalan esquirar, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (*skairan), from Proto-Germanic *skeraną. Cognate with English shear.

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

esquilar (first-person singular present esquilo, first-person singular preterite esquilí, past participle esquilat)

1. (transitive) to shear (to remove the fleece of sheep)

   Synonyms: tondre, xollar

• esquila
• esquilada
• esquilador

• tosquirar

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

Borrowed from Spanish esquilar (“to shear”), from Old Spanish esquirar, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (*skairan), from Proto-Germanic *skeraną.

esquilar (first-person singular present esquilo, first-person singular preterite esquilei, past participle esquilado)

1. (regional) to shear (to remove the fleece of sheep)

   Synonyms: tosar, tosquiar

• esquila

Inherited from Old Spanish esquirar, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (*skairan), from Proto-Germanic *skeraną. Compare Old High German sceran.

• IPA^(key): /eskiˈlaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧qui‧lar

esquilar (first-person singular present esquilo, first-person singular preterite esquilé, past participle esquilado)

1. to shear
2. (Cantabria) to climb

• → Galician: esquiloar
• → Portuguese: esquiar, esquilar

• “esquilar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28