deixar
Pronunciation: [dəˈʃa]
“deixar” is a Catalan word. Its 9 meanings in English:
verb
- to leave (to refrain from taking (something) away)
- to let oneself go (to cease to care about one's appearance)
- to leave (to put; to place)
- to leave (to cause, to result in)
- to let, to allow, to permit
- to leave, to depart from
- to leave behind, to abandon
- to leave to (to transfer possession of after death)
- to lend
In Catalan
- Parar d'agafar, posar alguna cosa en algun lloc.
- Permetre de fer una cosa sense posar impediments.
- Abandonar-se en l’endreçament personal.
- Interrompre una acció o estat.
- Donar alguna cosa pròpia a un altre temporalment.
- Oblidar, descuidar-se.
Etymology
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.
More Catalan words
- deixadesa
- deixalla
- deixalleria
- deixant
- deixar amb un pam de nas
- deixar com un drap brut
- deixar de
- deixar de pasta de moniato
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