dormir

Meaning

1. (intransitive) to sleep; to be asleep (to rest in a state of reduced consciousness)
2. (intransitive) to fall asleep (to become asleep)
3. (transitive) to have a given type of sleep
4. (figuratively,intransitive) to sleep (to be temporarily inactive)
5. (euphemistic,intransitive) to sleep with (to have sex with)
6. (figuratively,intransitive) to be constantly
7. (intransitive,poetic) to be dead
8. (informal,intransitive) to fall asleep (to temporarily lose blood circulation)
9. (Brazil,intransitive,slang) not to notice a problem
10. (Brazil,Minas-Gerais,colloquial) to spend the night

Hyphenated as

dor‧mir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/doʁˈmi(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese dormir, durmir, from Latin dormīre (“to sleep”), from Proto-Italic *dormiō, from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“run, sleep”).

Sentences

Você tem um lugar para dormir ?

Do you have a place to sleep?

Você vai tentar dormir um pouco ?

Will you try to get some sleep?

Minha perna vai dormir .

My leg goes to sleep.

Em abril , duas horas de sono é dormir .

In April, two hours of sleep is sleep.

Na noite ? eles espalharam seus equipamentos de dormir e mantiveram seus fogos escondidos .

In the night? they scattered their sleeping equipment and kept their fires hidden.