Meaning

  1. (transitive) to link; to connect; to join (to put things together so they work together)
  2. (transitive) to connect; to associate (to consider multiples things related)
  3. (transitive) to turn on (to make a device start operating)
  4. to call; to dial (to attempt to talk to someone with a telephone)
  5. (intransitive) to turn on (to start operating, said of a device)
  6. (Brazil, informal, intransitive) to care (about); to mind (to have concern or interest in)
  7. (Brazil, informal, reflexive) to become aware; to realize or perceive something
  8. (transitive) to alloy (to make an alloy from)
  9. (transitive) to tie (tie a ligature around a vessel)

Opposite of
desconectar, separar, desacoplar, desassociar, desligar
Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/liˈɥa(ʁ)/
Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin ligāre, from Proto-Indo-European *leyÇ”- (“to bind”). Compare the form liar, which may have (Old) French influence, as well as the inherited Old Portuguese form legar.

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