zorregar
Galician
Alternative forms
- azorregar
Etymology
From azorrego (“whip”). Compare Portuguese azorragar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θoreˈɡaɾ/, (western) /soreˈɡaɾ/
Verb
zorregar (first-person singular present zorrego, first-person singular preterite zorreguei, past participle zorregado)
- to whip
- c. 1771, anonymous, Rosario Álvarez, Ernesto González, editors, Décima xiringatoria:
- Endemal! non falás rouco,
mais eu à tanto desfacho,
(como dixo ô ôutro) a macho
que hè lerdo, arrieiro louco.
Por moito que eu malle, hè pouco;
que a quen do principio aò cabo,
sin fazer caso do crabo,
tàs peras tira meu frade,
conven (xiquera à semade)
que lle zorreguen ô rabo.- Alas! you don't speak rough,
but I, to such impertinence,
as they say, to dumb mule,
mad muleteer.
No matter how much I strike, is not enough;
because to whom, beginning to end,
not paying attention to the nail,
your pears drop, my friar,
it is advisable (at least summarily)
that they whip their tail
- Alas! you don't speak rough,
- to strike, hit, beat repeatedly
- 1981, Víctor Freixanes, O enxoval da noiva, page 61:
- Soamente o vento ruxe nas alturas e, de cando en vez, bátigas de choiva veñen zorregar con furia nos vidros e nas xanelas
- Just the wind roars up high and, from time to time, a heavy shower comes to beat furiously on the glasses and windows
Conjugation
1Less recommended.
Derived terms
- zorregada
References
- “çorreg” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “zorregar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “zorregar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
- “zorregar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “zorregar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
- “zorregar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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