mergulhar

Significat (Anglès)

1. (intransitive) to submerge (to go down in water)
2. (intransitive) to dive (to jump into water)
3. (figuratively, intransitive) to dive (to descend or decrease sharply or steeply)
4. (transitive) to dip (to lower something into a liquid)
5. (figuratively, intransitive) to immerse oneself (to involve oneself deeply)
6. (intransitive) to dive (to work as a diver)

Conceptes

capbussar-se

llançar-se en picat

llançar-se de cap

cabussar-se

submergir

enfonsar-se

tirar-se de cap

submergir-se

bussejar

capbussar

Oposat a

emergir, vir à tona

Sinònims

submergir

afogar

dar um

imergir

dar um mergulho

inundar

alagar

afogar-se

Traduccions

dive

plonger

duiken

tuffarsi

zambullirse

bucear

tauchen

plunge

sumergir

immergere

duck

🦆

onder water zetten

submerger

dip

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/meʁ.ɡuˈʎa(ʁ)/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Cognat amb gallec: mergullar

Cognat amb espanyol: somorgujar

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese mergullar, from Vulgar Latin *merguliāre, from Latin mergulus, diminutive of mergus (“diver; loon”), from mergō (“to dive, to plunge”). Cognate with Galician mergullar. Compare also Spanish somorgujar.