fanar

From Old Galician-Portuguese fanar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *fann- or *wann-.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /faˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: fa‧nar

fanar (first-person singular present fano, first-person singular preterite fanei, past participle fanado)

1. (transitive) to lop, lop off
2. (transitive) to cripple; to amputate
3. (transitive) to prune

   Synonym: podar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fanar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fanar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “fanar”, 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), “fanar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “fanar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fanar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

fanar (present tense fanas, past tense fanis, future tense fanos, imperative fanez, conditional fanus)

1. to winnow
2. to fan
3. to husk

    Conjugation of fanar

		present		past		future
infinitive		fanar		fanir		fanor
tense		fanas		fanis		fanos
conditional		fanus
imperative		fanez
adjective active participle		fananta		faninta		fanonta
adverbial active participle		fanante		faninte		fanonte
nominal active participle	singular	fananto		faninto		fanonto
	plural	fananti		faninti		fanonti
adjective passive participle		fanata		fanita		fanota
adverbial passive participle		fanate		fanite		fanote
nominal passive participle	singular	fanato		fanito		fanoto
	plural	fanati		faniti		fanoti

Borrowed from Greek φανάρι (fanári).

fanar n (plural fanare)

1. a lamp

From Vulgar Latin *fenare, from Latin faenum (“hay”).

fanar

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) to make hay

• (Rumantsch Grischun) far fain
• (Sursilvan) far fein
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) far fagn
• (Puter) fer cul fain
• (Vallader) far cun fain

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) fanadur
• (Sursilvan) fenadur
• (Surmiran) fanadour