amarrar

Borrowed from French amarrer, from Middle Dutch aanmeren (“to berth”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.məˈra]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.maˈraɾ]

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarrí, past participle amarrat)

1. to moor
2. to tie

• amarrada
• amarrador
• amarratge

• “amarrar”, 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
• “amarrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old French amarrer (“to moor”), from Middle Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *mairją (“mooring post”).^[1]

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarrei, past participle amarrado)

1. to moor
   • 1432, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69:

     que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela

     nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it

2. to tie

   Synonym: atar

3. to catch

• amarra (“rope”)
• amarradoiro (“mooring post”)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “amarrar”, 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), “amarr”, 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), “amarrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “amarrar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “amarrar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “amarrar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Middle Dutch *aenmâren, from aen (“on”) + mâren (“to moor, dock, fasten a ship”), a variant of mêren, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn, whence English moor.

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amarrar

1. to moor

• amarra
• amarratge
• desamarratge

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[2], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 47

Borrowed from French amarrer, from Dutch aanmeren (“to tie or anchor the boat at the quay”).

• Hyphenation: a‧mar‧rar

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarrei, past participle amarrado)

1. (nautical) to moor
2. to tie (to fasten with ropes, thread, wire, chains, etc.)

   Por favor, amarre a corda aqui.

   Please tie the rope here.

3. (Brazil, colloquial, reflexive, followed by "em") to love, to like very much

   Eu me amarro em filmes de ação.

   I love action movies.

   (literally, “I tie myself into action movies.”)

• amarra

• “amarrar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “amarrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French amarrer (“to moor”), borrowed from Dutch aanmeren (“to tie or anchor the boat at the quay”).

The Dutch aanmeren comes from aan- +‎ meren (“to moor”), from Proto-Germanic *mairōną, from Proto-Germanic *mairją (“mooring post”), likely formed as Proto-Indo-European *(H)moi- (“to strengthen”) +‎ *ro- similarly to Latin mūrus (“defensive wall”), see *mey-.

• IPA^(key): /amaˈraɾ/ [a.maˈraɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ma‧rrar

amarrar (first-person singular present amarro, first-person singular preterite amarré, past participle amarrado)

1. to tie

   Synonym: atar

2. to moor

   Antonyms: desamarrar, atracar

• “amarrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025