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deixar.

to leave (to refrain from taking (something) away)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Català language

Meaning & usage

verb[dəˈʃa]Balearic, Central, Northern[dejˈʃaɾ]Valencia[dejˈʃa]Northwestern
  1. to leave (to refrain from taking (something) away)

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · transitive
  2. to let oneself go (to cease to care about one's appearance)

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · reflexive
  3. to leave (to put; to place)

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · transitive
    va deixar les cartes a la taula
  4. to leave (to cause, to result in)

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia
    la seva confessió ens va deixar sense paraules
  5. to let, to allow, to permit

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · transitive
    deixar caure
  6. to leave, to depart from

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · transitive
  7. to leave behind, to abandon

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · transitive
  8. to leave to (to transfer possession of after death)

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · transitive
  9. to lend

    Balearic · Central · Northern · Northwestern · Valencia · transitive
    Deixa'm el mòbil, he de trucar la Gina.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Catalan leixar, from Latin laxāre (compare Occitan daissar and laissar, Portuguese deixar, Aragonese deixar, Spanish dejar, French laisser and Italian lasciare). The alteration of the initial l- to d- (found in Ibero- and Occitano-Romance) may be due to the preposition de preceding it in many constructions using this verb, or from contraction of a Late Latin *dēlaxāre.

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