zafar

• safar

From Old Galician-Portuguese çafar (“to vanish”) (13th century), from Andalusian Arabic زَاح (záḥ), from Arabic أَزَاحَ (ʔazāḥa, “to remove; to move to another place”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): , (western)

zafar (first-person singular present zafo, first-person singular preterite zafei, past participle zafado)

1. (transitive) to let off, spare, free
2. (pronominal or intransitive) to get out (to come out of a situation)
3. (pronominal) to handle oneself

• zafada
• zafado
• zafo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “çafar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çafa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “safar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zafar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “zafar”, 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), “zafar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “zafar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Andalusian Arabic زَاح (záḥ), from Arabic أَزَاحَ (ʔazāḥa, “to remove; to move to another place”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θaˈfaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saˈfaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: za‧far

zafar (first-person singular present zafo, first-person singular preterite zafé, past participle zafado)

1. (transitive) to loosen; to untie

   Synonym: aflojar

2. (intransitive, Latin America, followed by "de") to get out of; to dodge (an obligation)
3. (reflexive) to come undone; to loosen up
4. (reflexive, followed by "de") to free oneself of; to get free of

• → Portuguese: safar

• “zafar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from Arabic ظَفَر (ẓafar).

zafar (plural zafarlar)

1. victory, triumph

• muzaffar