tragar
Meaning
- (transitive) to swallow (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach)
- (transitive) to swallow, consume, absorb (take (something) in so that it disappears)
- (transitive) to gulp, swallow, devour (eat quickly and eagerly)
- (pronominal, transitive) to buy into, fall for (easily believe something without questioning)
- (pronominal, transitive) to stand, tolerate
- (colloquial, proscribed) to eat
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
avaler
schlucken
engolir
ingoiare
slikken
engolir
daqurtandinFrequency
Hyphenated as
tra‧gar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾaˈɡaɾ/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tragāre, possibly from Doric Greek τράγω (trágō), in which case cognate with Attic Greek τρώγω (trṓgō, “to eat, to swallow”). Alternatively, Coromines suggests an origin ultimately in dracō (“dragon”), via an attested tracō (“underground cavern”), in the sense of "that which swallows [things] up". Cognate with Catalan dragar, Aragonese, Galician, and Portuguese tragar.
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