regañar

Galician

Alternative forms

• arragañar, arregañar

Etymology 1

Related to Spanish regañar and Portuguese reganhir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañei, past participle regañado)

1. (transitive, one's teeth) to show one's teeth (literally and figuratively)
   • 1837, anonymous author, O litigante labrador:

     Cando llo quixen dicir,
     puxo os ollos remelados,
     zarróu o puño pra min,
     e cos dentes regañados,
     fíxome a conta de todo,
     sen siquera descontalos;
     de tal sorte e tal maneira
     que de tales resultados
     deixáronme pez sen bota,
     eles de todo cobrados.

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Conjugation

Etymology 2

From regaña (“crack”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañei, past participle regañado)

1. (intransitive or takes a reflexive pronoun) to crack
   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferro-carril Compostelano:

     Cada vez a cousa engorda,
     como que incha a ollos vistos,
     Pro, si incha, non estoura;
     como o pelexo enteirizo
     da castaña agüenta e fofa
     pra levála o enemincho;
     Cando máis, si algo rebenta,
     e arregaña, é o ourizo,
     pra guindar limpa a castaña
     e roer fruto tan rico

     The thing grows at every time,
     as it swells in plain sight,
     but, although it swells, it does not burst;
     as the one-piece peel
     of the soft watery chestnuts
     you take to an enemy;
     at most, if something pops
     and cracks is the burr,
     to throw clean the chestnut
     and nibble such a rich fruit

Conjugation

Further reading

• “regañar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

• “regañar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “regañar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “regañar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Portuguese reganhir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reɡaˈɲaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ga‧ñar

Verb

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañé, past participle regañado)

1. (transitive) to scold, to tell off
2. (intransitive) to gripe, complain, whine
3. (intransitive) to bare one's teeth

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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