mondare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to weed
  2. (transitive) to sift
  3. (transitive) to winnow (grain)
  4. (transitive) to husk, to shell
  5. (figuratively, literary, transitive) to purify
  6. (literary, transitive) to clean, to cleanse
  7. (transitive) to peel
  8. (transitive) to strip (a tree of bark)

Synonyms

togliere la buccia

mm’nnà

monna’

scéje

pelare con le unghie

spelare frutta

spelare legumi

Hyphenated as
mon‧dà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/monˈda.re/
Etymology

From mondo (“clean, pure”) + -are. Compare Piedmontese mondé, Sicilian munnari.

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