escamar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kəˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [es.kaˈmaɾ]

From escama (“scale; flake”) +‎ -ar.

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)

1. (transitive) to flake (to break or chip off in a flake)
2. (transitive, Valencia) to scale (to remove the scales of)

   Synonym: escatar

Alternative form of escamnar, influenced by Spanish escamar.

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)

1. (transitive, Valencia) to scold

   Synonyms: renyar, (Valencian) bonegar

2. (transitive, Valencia) Alternative form of escamnar (“to teach a lesson”)
3. (transitive, Valencia) Alternative form of escamnar (“to make suspicious; to make distrust”)

From es- +‎ cama (“leg”) +‎ -ar.

escamar

1. (Balearic) only used in s'... escamar, syntactic variant of escamar-se, infinitive of escamar-se (“to escape; to run around”)

• “escamar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escamar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “escamar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escamar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese escamar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from escama +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): [eskɑˈmaɾ]

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)

1. (transitive) to scale (to remove the scales of)
2. (transitive) to scald

   Synonym: escaldar

3. (transitive) to clean and separate the peritoneum from the innards of a slaughtered animal
4. (transitive) to cause mistrust
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to back down

• escama

• “escamar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “escamar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escamar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “escamar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escamar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “escamar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From escama (“scale; flake”) +‎ -ar.

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)

1. to scale (remove the scales from a fish)

From escama +‎ -ar; partly derived from Latin dēsquamāre.

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈmaɾ/ [es.kaˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧mar

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamé, past participle escamado)

1. to remove the scales from
2. to make distrustful
3. (colloquial) to frighten

• “escamar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014