safar

Meaning

  1. to pull out
  2. to steal
  3. to erase
  4. to wear out
  5. (colloquial) to save
  6. (pronominal) to escape
  7. (pronominal) to avoid
  8. (pronominal) to do well
  9. (pronominal) to manage

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/saˈfa(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Spanish zafar, from Andalusian Arabic زَاح ([a]záḥ), from Arabic أَزَاحَ (ʔazāḥa, “to remove; to move to another place”).

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