nadar

Inherited from Latin natāre.

• IPA^(key): /naˈda(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: na‧dar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

nadar

1. (intransitive) to swim (move through water)

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “nadar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• ñadar

Inherited from Latin natāre.

• IPA^(key): /naˈdaɾ/ [naˈð̞aɾ], /ɲaˈdaɾ/ [ɲaˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: na‧dar

nadar (first-person singular indicative present nado, past participle nadáu)

1. (intransitive) to swim (move through water)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [nəˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [naˈðaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: na‧dar

nadar (first-person singular present nado, first-person singular preterite nadí, past participle nadat)

1. (intransitive, Western) alternative form of nedar (“to swim”) (move through water)

Named after Nadar, pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, French cartoonist and balloonist. Cf. Belgian French barrière Nadar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.dɑr/

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• Hyphenation: na‧dar

nadar m (plural nadars, diminutive nadarke n)

1. (Belgium) crush barrier

• nadarafsluiting, nadarhek
• dranghek

• [2]

• danar

From Old Galician-Portuguese nadar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin natāre.

• IPA^(key): /naˈdaɾ/ [nɐˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: nă‧dar

nadar (first-person singular present nado, first-person singular preterite nadei, past participle nadado)

1. (intransitive) to swim (move through water)
   • c. 1300, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Et aquela ymagéé Neptuno tyña em hũa mão hũ [çeptro] em lugar de señorio, et em çima do ceptro tres varas em lugar de tres poderes proprios quea agoa ha; que corre, et se nada ao quea quer nadar, et podese beber

     And that figure of Neptune had a scepter in the hand, as show of lordship, and atop the scepter three rods for the three characteristic powers that water has: that it runs, and that it can be swum by whomever wants to swim in it, and it can be drunk

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

• danar / דאנאר

Inherited from Old Spanish nadar (“to swim”), from Latin natāre.

• IPA^(key): /naˈdaɾ/

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• Hyphenation: na‧dar

nadar (Hebrew spelling נאדאר)^[1]

1. (intransitive) to swim (move through water)
   • 1997, Neue Romania: Veröffentlichungsreihe des Studienbereiches Neue Romania des Instituts für Romanische Philologie der FU Berlin‎^[3], numbers 19-22, page 176:

     Tanbién él vido kavesa una ke nadava sovre fases de las aguas. Diǧo aelya: por ke hizistes nadar, te hizieron nadar, i, al fin de tus hazientes nadar, nadarán.

     He also stopped one head that was swimming above the waters' surfaces. He told her that because you swam, they made you swim, and at the end of your swimming sessions, they'll swim [too].

Ladino conjugation varies by dialect. The following table is a general overview.

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.dar/
• Rhymes: -adar
• Hyphenation: na‧dar

From Arabic نَظَرَ (naẓara).

nadar (imperfect jondor, past participle mondur or mindur, verbal noun nadir)

1. (obsolete) to watch

From Arabic نَظَر (naẓar).

nadar m

1. (obsolete) sight

From Old Occitan, from Latin natāre.

• IPA^(key): /naˈdaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: na‧dar

nadar

1. (intransitive) to swim (move through water)

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[4], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 669

Inherited from Latin natāre.^[1]

nadar

1. to swim (move through liquid)

• “nadar”, in Diccionario del español medieval electrónico [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish, English, and German), Rostock University and Paderborn University, 2022–present
• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “nadar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 354

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin natāre.

• Hyphenation: na‧dar

nadar (first-person singular present nado, first-person singular preterite nadei, past participle nadado)

1. (intransitive) to swim (support oneself and move on the surface or within a liquid, through coordinated movements of arms and legs)
2. (intransitive) to swim (practice a given swimming style)
3. (intransitive) to be immersed in liquid
4. (intransitive) to wear very loose clothing
5. (intransitive, clothing) to be exaggeratedly wide/loose
6. (transitive) to travel (a given distance) moving on the surface or within a liquid
7. (transitive) to possess in great abundance

• nado

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

Inherited from Old Spanish nadar, from Latin natāre.

• IPA^(key): /naˈdaɾ/ [naˈð̞aɾ]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: na‧dar

nadar (first-person singular present nado, first-person singular preterite nadé, past participle nadado)

1. (intransitive) to swim (move through water)
2. (intransitive) to be swimming in [with en ‘in’]

   ¡Nadamos en dinero!

   We're swimming in money!

• “nadar”, 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