embaraçar
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese embaraçar(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?), from Arabic مَرَسَة (marasa, “rope”). The medieval term is also the source of Spanish embarazar and English embarrass.
By surface analysis, en- + baraço + -ar, or embaraço + -ar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(h)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ba.ɾaˈsa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ɾ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ʁ)/ [ẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(χ)], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ʁ)/ [ĩ.ba.ɾaˈsa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ɻ)/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ba.ɾaˈsa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.bɐ.ɾɐˈsaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽ.bɐ.ɾɐˈsa.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: em‧ba‧ra‧çar
Verb
embaraçar (first-person singular present embaraço, first-person singular preterite embaracei, past participle embaraçado)
- (of hair, ropes, cables and similar) to tangle; to snarl (to interweave in a messy way)
- Synonym: emaranhar
- to embarrass (to make someone feel discomforted from shame)
- Synonym: (more formal) constranger
Conjugation
Conjugation of embaraçar (c-ç alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
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| Negative (não) | não embaraces | não embarace | não embaracemos | não embaraceis | não embaracem | |
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “embaraçar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “embaraçar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026