engañar
Meaning
- to trick, to deceive, to hoodwink, to cheat
- to blindside
- (reflexive) to fool oneself, to kid oneself
Frequency
Hyphenated as
en‧ga‧ñar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/enɡaˈɲaɾ/
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin ingannāre (attested in a gloss), from Latin ganniō. Compare Portuguese enganar, Catalan enganyar, Romanian îngâna, Italian ingannare. Cf. also Medieval Latin (in)gannatura (“mockery”).
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