xantar

xantar (first-person singular indicative present xanto, past participle xantáu)

1. (Western Asturian) alternative form of xintar

• jantar (reintegrationist)
• xentar

From Old Galician-Portuguese jantar, from Latin ientāre. Cognate with Portuguese jantar, Asturian xintar and Spanish yantar.

• IPA^(key): /ʃanˈtaɾ/ [ʃan̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

xantar m (plural xantares)

1. dinner (midday main meal)

   O que ben almorza escusa o xantar (proverb) ― He who eats a good breakfast does not need dinner.

2. lunch
   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     bou correndo pola posta, s'acho jantar que comer, qu'ainda a tarde ei de esparjer unha gran pilla de bosta

     I'm running for the loaf, if I find lunch to eat, because yet this afternoon I ought to spread a large pile of dung

3. (historical) a food contribution or tax paid to a visiting lord or lord's representative

xantar (first-person singular present xanto, first-person singular preterite xantei, past participle xantado)

1. to dinner (afternoon main meal)
   • 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

     Polas tres da tarde
     Xantei à desexo
     C’o à miña muller,
     Aurora, è a nena
     Que a tiña a nai
     Garimada ao peito

     Around three in the afternoon
     I dinnered to my liking
     with my wife,
     Aurora, and the girl
     that the mother had
     close to her bosom

2. to lunch
3. to eat

   Synonym: comer

• casa de xantar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “xantar”, 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), “xantar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xantar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Chinese [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /χɑntʰɑr/, /χɑntʰɨr/

xantar (3rd person possessive xantarı, plural xantarlar)

1. shirt

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “xantar”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 555
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “xantar”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 131
• Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “xantar”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 315
• 马伟 (Ma Wei) (2016), “xantar”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 青海师范大学 (Qinghai Normal University), Unpublished finalized project manuscript (国家社会科学基金项目结项稿, 定稿; National Social Science Fund of China), page 275