embazar

Attested since circa 1300. From en- +‎ bazo (“spleen / opaque”). Cognate with Portuguese embaçar and Spanish embazar.

• IPA^(key): [embaˈθaɾ], (western) [embaˈsaɾ]

embazar (first-person singular present embazo, first-person singular preterite embacei, past participle embazado)

1. to clash, block, obstruct, halt

   Synonym: atascar

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 108:

     Et o conde, quando o uyu, sayu a el et forõsse ferir muy de rigeo das l[ã]ças; et tam grandes forõ os golpes que sse derõ, que ficarõ enbaçados, en guisa que nõ poderõ falar nẽ ferirse hũu a outro

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2. to dull, tarnish

   Synonym: empanar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “enbaçar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “enbaç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “embazar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “embazar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “embazar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /embaˈθaɾ/ [ẽm.baˈθaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /embaˈsaɾ/ [ẽm.baˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧ba‧zar
• Homophone: (Latin America) envasar

embazar (first-person singular present embazo, first-person singular preterite embacé, past participle embazado)

1. to confuse; muddle up

• “embazar”, 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