atrapar

atrapar (first-person singular indicative present atrapo, past participle atrapáu)

1. to capture
2. to catch an illness

Borrowed from French attraper.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.tɾəˈpa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.tɾaˈpaɾ]

atrapar (first-person singular present atrapo, first-person singular preterite atrapí, past participle atrapat)

1. to capture, to catch

   Synonym: enxampar

• atrapada
• atrapador
• atrapamosques

• “atrapar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “atrapar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Compare French attraper. Derivable from a- +‎ trapa (“trap, snare”) +‎ -ar.

atrapar (ORB, broad)

1. to catch

2=atrap
5=avêr

• attraper in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• atrapar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Borrowed from French attraper, ultimately from Germanic. More at English trap.

• IPA^(key): /atɾaˈpaɾ/ [a.t̪ɾaˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧tra‧par

atrapar (first-person singular present atrapo, first-person singular preterite atrapé, past participle atrapado)

1. to capture
2. to catch, to get

• “atrapar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024