bañar

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• IPA^(key): /baˈɲa(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: ba‧ñar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

bañar

1. alternative spelling of banyar (“to bathe”)

• “bañar”, in Aragonario, diccionario aragonés–castellano (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “bañar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• banhar (Reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese bannar, from Vulgar Latin *baneare, from Late Latin balneāre, from Latin balneum.

• IPA^(key): [baˈɲaɾ]

bañar (first-person singular present baño, first-person singular preterite bañei, past participle bañado)

1. (transitive or pronominal) to bathe
2. (transitive) to cover or coat with a liquid substance

   Synonyms: cubrir, revestir

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “bannar”, 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), “bañar”, 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), “bañar”, 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), “bañar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bañar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *baneare, from Late Latin balneāre, from Latin balneum. Compare Portuguese banhar, Catalan banyar, French baigner, Italian bagnare.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɲaɾ/ [baˈɲaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧ñar

bañar (first-person singular present baño, first-person singular preterite bañé, past participle bañado)

1. (transitive) to bathe (to clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath)
2. (transitive) to soak, to dip in

   Synonym: sumergir

3. (reflexive) to bathe oneself

   Voy a bañarme esta noche.

   I am going to bathe (myself) tonight.

• “bañar”, 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