cheirar

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (transitive) to smell (to perceive a smell with the nose)
2. (intransitive) to smell (to have a particular smell)
3. (Brazil,colloquial,intransitive,transitive) to snort (to insufflate cocaine)

Met koppelteken als

chei‧rar

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ʃe(j)ˈɾa(ʁ)/

Etymologie (Engels)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cheirar (“to smell”), from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin flagrāre, by dissimilation from Latin fragrāre.
Cognate to Galician cheirar, Catalan and Occitan flairar, French flairer, and English flair (through Old French flair).