empalmar

From empalomar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pəlˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [em.palˈmaɾ]
• Homophone: empalmà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

empalmar (first-person singular present empalmo, first-person singular preterite empalmí, past participle empalmat)

1. (transitive) to join, to splice (to combine into one)

• (splice ropes): entollar

• desempalmar
• empalmadora
• empalmament

• “empalmar”, 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
• “empalmar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “empalmar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “empalmar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From empalomar.

• IPA^(key): /empalˈmaɾ/ [ẽm.palˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pal‧mar

empalmar (first-person singular present empalmo, first-person singular preterite empalmé, past participle empalmado)

1. (transitive) to splice, join, connect, continue

   Synonym: unir

   Antonyms: desempalmar, desunir

2. to overlap

   Synonym: reenganchar

3. (colloquial) to stay up, to stay up all night

   Synonym: reenganchar

4. (reflexive, vulgar, Spain) to get a boner, get a hard-on, have a hard-on, go hard, get hard

   Antonym: desempalmarse

• “empalmar”, 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