abalar

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese abalar (Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *advallare, from Latin vallis (“valley”), or from Late Latin ballāre (“to dance”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aβaˈlaɾ/

Verb

abalar (first-person singular present abalo, first-person singular preterite abalei, past participle abalado)

1. (archaic) to move, to displace, to dislodge
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 939:

     Mays Éytor, cõmo era ualẽt, por esso nõ foy abalado nẽ mouudo da ssela

     But Hector, as he was a bold man, was not dislodged nor moved of his saddle

2. (transitive) to shake

   Synonym: sacudir

3. (transitive) to rock

   Synonyms: abanar, arrolar

4. (intransitive) to tide
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to rock

   Synonyms: abanar, arrolar

See also

• Pedra de abalar on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “abalar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “abalar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “abalar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “abalar” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “abalar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Old Portuguese abalar, from Vulgar Latin *advallare, probably ultimately from Latin vallis (“vale, valley”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.bɐ.ˈlaɾ/, [ɐ.βɐ.ˈlaɾ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧lar

Verb

abalar (first-person singular present indicative abalo, past participle abalado)

1. to shake
2. to affect, unsettle, shock

References

• Sociedade de Língua Portuguesa (Portugal) (1970): Boletim, Volumes 21-23

Noun

abalar

1. plural of aba