mergulhar

Significado

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)

Con guión como

mer‧gu‧lhar

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/meʁ.ɡuˈʎa(ʁ)/

Etimología

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.