regar

Inherited from Latin rigāre.

regar

1. (transitive) to irrigate

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “regar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin rigāre.

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

regar (first-person singular present rego, first-person singular preterite reguí, past participle regat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to irrigate, to water

   Synonyms: espargir, vessar

• “regar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin rigāre.

regar (first-person singular present rego, first-person singular preterite reguei, past participle regado)

1. to water (to pour water into the soil surrounding (plants))
2. to water (to provide water to, of a river)

• regador
• rego

regar

1. inflection of regō:
   1. first-person singular future passive indicative
   2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive

From Vulgar Latin, from Latin rigāre.

• Hyphenation: re‧gar

regar (first-person singular present rego, first-person singular preterite reguei, past participle regado)

1. (transitive) to water (pour water into the soil surrounding (plants))
2. (transitive, figurative) to provide beverages
3. inflection of regar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• “regar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “regar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “regar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “regar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “regar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “regar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Inherited from Latin rigāre.

• IPA^(key): /reˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧gar

regar (first-person singular present riego, first-person singular preterite regué, past participle regado)

1. to irrigate
2. to water
3. to scatter
4. to hose, to wash down
5. (colloquial) to ruin
6. (colloquial) to err, to mess up

   Es fácil regarla cuando no estás concentrado.

   It's easy to mess up when you're not focused.

• “regar”, 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