colar

Meaning

  1. to sift, to strain, to filter
  2. (Cuba,Dominican-Republic) to prepare coffee
  3. (colloquial) to dupe, hoodwink
  4. (colloquial) to missay, say wrongly
  5. (colloquial,reflexive) to fall for, fall in love
  6. (colloquial,reflexive) to sneak into, to crash
  7. to sift through, comb through

Frequency

36k
Hyphenated as
co‧lar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈlaɾ/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin cōlāre whence English coulee and colander.

Cognate with English
English
coulee

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