pelar

Meaning

to depilate (remove hair)

Concepts

skin

shell

🐚

peel

deprive

abstract

bare

detect

discover

expose

nick

clear

purloin

steal

starve

strip

uncover

deprive … of

clean

despoil

pare

deprive of

Synonyms

descascar

tirar a pele

desvendar

furtar

gatunar

larapiar

revelar

roubar

descobrir

Translations

pelar

dépouiller

pelar

villen

éplucher

stropen

jassen

pelare

peler

afpellen

sbucciare

schillen

ontvellen

abdecken

entwenden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/peˈla(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pelar, from Latin pilāre (“to deprive of hair”), from pilus (“hair”), from Proto-Indo-European *pil- (“string of hair”). Doublet of pilhar.