deixar

Meaning

1. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,transitive) to leave (to refrain from taking (something) away)
2. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,reflexive) to let oneself go (to cease to care about one's appearance)
3. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,transitive) to leave (to put; to place)
4. (Balearic,Central,Valencia) to leave (to cause, to result in)
5. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,transitive) to let, to allow, to permit
6. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,transitive) to leave, to depart from
7. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,transitive) to leave behind, to abandon
8. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,transitive) to leave to (to transfer possession of after death)
9. (Balearic,Central,Valencia,transitive) to lend

Pronounced as (IPA)

[dəˈʃa]

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan leixar, from Latin laxāre (compare Occitan daissar and laissar, Portuguese deixar, Aragonese deixar, Spanish dejar, French laisser and Italian lasciare). The alteration of the initial l- to d- (found in Ibero- and Occitano-Romance) may be due to the preposition de preceding it in many constructions using this verb, or from contraction of a Late Latin *dēlaxāre.