cheirar

Meaning

1. (transitive) to smell (to perceive a smell with the nose)
2. (intransitive) to smell (to have a particular smell)
3. (Brazil,colloquial,intransitive,transitive) to snort (to insufflate cocaine)

Hyphenated as

chei‧rar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃe(j)ˈɾa(ʁ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cheirar (“to smell”), from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin flagrāre, by dissimilation from Latin fragrāre.
Cognate to Galician cheirar, Catalan and Occitan flairar, French flairer, and English flair (through Old French flair).