mergulhar

Meaning

1. (intransitive) to submerge (to go down in water)
2. (intransitive) to dive (to jump into water)
3. (figuratively, intransitive) to dive (to descend or decrease sharply or steeply)
4. (transitive) to dip (to lower something into a liquid)
5. (figuratively, intransitive) to immerse oneself (to involve oneself deeply)
6. (intransitive) to dive (to work as a diver)

Concepts

dive

plunge

dip

duck

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dunk

overflow

plunk

sink

submerge

bury

swoop

douse

flood

immerse

inundate

Opposite of

emergir, vir à tona

Synonyms

submergir

afogar

dar um

imergir

dar um mergulho

inundar

alagar

afogar-se

Translations

plonger

duiken

tuffarsi

zambullirse

bucear

tauchen

sumergir

immergere

llançar-se de cap

submerger

capbussar-se

onder water zetten

llançar-se en picat

cabussar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/meʁ.ɡuˈʎa(ʁ)/

Etymology

Cognate with Galician: mergullar

Cognate with Spanish: somorgujar

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese mergullar, from Vulgar Latin *merguliāre, from Latin mergulus, diminutive of mergus (“diver; loon”), from mergō (“to dive, to plunge”). Cognate with Galician mergullar. Compare also Spanish somorgujar.