mazar

Galician

Alternative forms

• maçar (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From maza (“mace”). Compare Portuguese maçar and Spanish mazar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈθaɾ/, (western) /maˈsaɾ/

Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macei, past participle mazado)

1. (transitive) to pound, to hammer (to strike repeatedly)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be pounded before cooking.

2. (transitive) to tenderize (meat)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be tenderized before cooking.

3. (transitive) to thresh (flax)
   • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 219:

     Çinco feyxes de liño, un maçado e quatro por maçar

     five flax bundles: one threshed and four pending thresing

4. (transitive) to churn

   Synonym: petar

   Mazando o leite obtemos a manteiga. ― By churning milk we obtain butter.

5. (transitive) to bruise

   Synonym: esmolicar

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bruise (to gain bruises; to get bruised)

   A froita mazouse no transporte. ― The fruit bruised during the transportation.

7. (intransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) to bang (to engage in sexual intercourse)

   Cacháronos mazando nos servizos! ― They found them banging in the bathroom!

Conjugation

Derived terms

• mazado
• Mazadoiro
• mazadura

Related terms

• maza

References

• “maça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mazar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mazar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mazar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• mazzar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)
• mazzer (Puter)

Etymology

Compare Italian ammazzare, Friulian maçâ, Venetian masar, Istriot masà, Occitan massar, cf. also Spanish mazar.

Verb

mazar

1. (Sutsilvan) to kill

Spanish

Etymology

From maza. Compare Portuguese maçar; cf. also Occitan massar, Italian ammazzare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /maˈθaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /maˈsaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧zar

Verb

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macé, past participle mazado)

1. to tenderize (meat)
2. to churn

Conjugation

Further reading

• “mazar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014