zarpar

Borrowed from Spanish zarpar, from Old Italian sarpare (modern Italian salpare), from serpe, from Latin serpēns (“snake”).

• Hyphenation: zar‧par

zarpar (first-person singular present zarpo, first-person singular preterite zarpei, past participle zarpado)

1. (nautical, intransitive) to embark; to set sail
2. to leave

From Old Italian / Vulgar Latin sarpare, from serpe, from Latin serpēns (“snake”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θaɾˈpaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saɾˈpaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: zar‧par

zarpar (first-person singular present zarpo, first-person singular preterite zarpé, past participle zarpado)

1. (nautical, intransitive) to embark; to set sail

   Coordinate term: atracar (“to moor”)

   • 2023 December 4, Clara Blanchar, Dani Cordero, “Barcelona supera este año los tres millones de cruceristas, y aumentan solo los que hacen escala”, in El País‎:

     Mientras, los que utilizan Barcelona como puerto base (zarpan o atracan en el puerto), aumentan un 6,6% hasta 1,7 millones.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, colloquial) to behave in a daring and out of place way

• “zarpar”, 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