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esfolar.

to flay

7 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/is.foˈla(ʁ)/Brazil[is.foˈla(h)]Brazil/es.foˈla(ʁ)/Brazil[es.foˈla(h)]Brazil

  1. to flay

    transitive

  2. to scrape (to injure by scraping)

    pronominal
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese esfolar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *exfollāre. By surface analysis, es- (“ex-”) + fol (“hide, skin, bag”) + -ar.

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