deixar

Meaning

(transitive) to leave; to exit (to go out of or away from a place)
(transitive) to leave (to refrain from taking)
(transitive) to leave, to leave behind (to cause to exist after its occurrence)
(ditransitive) to leave (to cause to be in a state)
(transitive) to leave (to end one’s connection, affiliation or relationship with)
(catenative) to quit (to stop doing something habitually)
(catenative) not to (do something); to refrain from
(catenative,ditransitive) to let; to allow to (to give permission to)
(catenative,ditransitive) to let; to allow to (to give possibility to)
(transitive) to postpone; to put off (to reschedule or avoid doing something until a later time)
(transitive) to leave; to bequeath (to give something to someone after dying or leaving)
(transitive) to leave off; to omit (to not include)
(transitive) to leave alone (to not bother)
(transitive) to make someone feel a certain way

Frequency

Hyphenated as

dei‧xar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/de(j)ˈʃa(ʁ)/

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese leixar, from Latin laxāre (“to extend; to lighten; to relax; to release”), from laxus (“loose”). Doublet of the borrowed laxar. Compare Galician deixar, Asturian dexar, and Spanish dejar, all also undergoing the shift of initial -l- to -d-. It may have been influenced by the preposition de or come from contraction of a Late Latin *dēlaxāre.