osmar

• usmar, usmear

From Late Latin osma, from Ancient Greek ὀσμή, ὀδμή (osmḗ, odmḗ, “odour, stench”). Compare Spanish husmear.

• IPA^(key): [osˈmaɾ]

osmar (first-person singular present osmo, first-person singular preterite osmei, past participle osmado)

1. to sniff

   Synonyms: barruntar, cheirar

2. to sniff around

   Synonym: solermar

3. to spy, stalk

   Synonym: axexar

4. to have a feeling; to guess; to suspect; to foresee

   Synonyms: barruntar, presentir

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 737:

     Tanto que os tres caualeyros uirõ a manãa, subirõ en seus caualos, pero eýnda nõ era bẽ día claro, mais a lũa rray[a]ua moy bẽ et nihũ nõ podía osmar hu todos tres quiríã yr.

     As soon as the three knights saw the morning, they mounted their horses, however the day was not clear yet, but the moon was shinning bright and no one could guess where the three wanted to go

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “osmar”, 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), “osmar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “osmar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “osmar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “osmar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “osmar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “osmar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN