desmayar
Meaning
- (transitive) to cause a person to faint
- (figuratively,intransitive) to dishearten
- (pronominal) to faint (lose consciousness)
Concepts
faint
dismay
get depressed
lose heart
pass out
Frequency
Hyphenated as
des‧ma‧yar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/desmaˈʝaɾ/
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French esmaier (“to perturb”), from Latin *magāre, from Frankish *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą. Cognate with English dismay although a false friend. Compare Portuguese desmaiar. Doublet and related to esmayao "to be hungry, famished", from esmayar.
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