mamar

mamar (first-person singular indicative present mamo, past participle mamáu)

1. to suckle (milk from a mother's breast)

   Synonym: zucar

2. to learn something while growing up (a child)
3. (reflexive) to get drunk

   Synonym: enfilar

4. (transitive) to get hit, to receive a beating

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “mamar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “mamar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamí, past participle mamat)

1. to suckle

• “mamar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mamar, from Late Latin mammō, from mamma + -o. By surface analysis, mama +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /maˈmaɾ/ [mãˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ma‧mar

mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamei, past participle mamado)

1. to suckle

• “mamar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “mamar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

Inherited from Late Latin mammō, from mamma + -o.

mamar

1. to suckle (to suck milk from a nursing mother)
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, chapter 220, in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, page 92v:

     Et ao maỹs peq̃no chamauã aternates, ⁊ era moço peq̃no de tr̃s años q̃ aỹnda mamaua.

     And the youngest one they called Astyanax(?), and he was a little three-year-old boy that still suckled.

• Fala: mamal
• Galician: mamar
• Portuguese: mamar

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2025), “mamado”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mama”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• mammar (pre-standardization spelling)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mamar, from Late Latin mammō, from mamma + -o. By surface analysis, mama +‎ -ar.

mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamei, past participle mamado)

1. to suckle
2. (colloquial) to drink
3. (colloquial, somewhat vulgar) to perform oral sex, especially fellatio

Borrowed from French mammaire.

mamar m or n (feminine singular mamară, masculine plural mamari, feminine and neuter plural mamare)

1. mammary

Inherited from Latin mammāre, from mamma (“breast”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈmaɾ/ [maˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧mar

mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamé, past participle mamado)

1. to suckle
2. to suck
3. to blow (give a blowjob)
4. (colloquial) pocket (illegally)
5. to bullshit or fuck around
6. (vulgar) to fuck

• “mamar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024