zarpar
Portuguese
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from Spanish zarpar, from Old Italian sarpare.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /zaʁˈpa(ʁ)/ [zahˈpa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /zaɾˈpa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /zaʁˈpa(ʁ)/ [zaχˈpa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /zaɻˈpa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /zɐɾˈpaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /zɐɾˈpa.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: zar‧par
Verb
zarpar (first-person singular present zarpo, first-person singular preterite zarpei, past participle zarpado)
Conjugation
Conjugation of zarpar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
- “zarpar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “zarpar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from Old Italian sarpare.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θaɾˈpaɾ/ [θaɾˈpaɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /saɾˈpaɾ/ [saɾˈpaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: zar‧par
Verb
zarpar (first-person singular present zarpo, first-person singular preterite zarpé, past participle zarpado)
- (nautical, intransitive) to embark; to set sail
- Coordinate term: atracar (“to moor”)
- 2023 December 4, Clara Blanchar, Dani Cordero, “Barcelona supera este año los tres millones de cruceristas, y aumentan solo los que hacen escala”, in El País[1]:
- Mientras, los que utilizan Barcelona como puerto base (zarpan o atracan en el puerto), aumentan un 6,6% hasta 1,7 millones.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Chile, Rioplatense, colloquial) to behave in a daring and out of place way
Conjugation
Conjugation of zarpar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | zarpar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | zarpando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | zarpado | zarpada | |||||
| plural | zarpados | zarpadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | zarpo | zarpastú zarpásvos |
zarpa | zarpamos | zarpáis | zarpan | |
| imperfect | zarpaba | zarpabas | zarpaba | zarpábamos | zarpabais | zarpaban | |
| preterite | zarpé | zarpaste | zarpó | zarpamos | zarpasteis | zarparon | |
| future | zarparé | zarparás | zarpará | zarparemos | zarparéis | zarparán | |
| conditional | zarparía | zarparías | zarparía | zarparíamos | zarparíais | zarparían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | zarpe | zarpestú zarpésvos2 |
zarpe | zarpemos | zarpéis | zarpen | |
| imperfect (ra) |
zarpara | zarparas | zarpara | zarpáramos | zarparais | zarparan | |
| imperfect (se) |
zarpase | zarpases | zarpase | zarpásemos | zarpaseis | zarpasen | |
| future1 | zarpare | zarpares | zarpare | zarpáremos | zarpareis | zarparen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | zarpatú zarpávos |
zarpe | zarpemos | zarpad | zarpen | ||
| negative | no zarpes | no zarpe | no zarpemos | no zarpéis | no zarpen | ||
References
- ^ Coromines, Joan (1961), “zarpar”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 623
Further reading
- “zarpar”, 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