exalar

• exhalar (pre-reform spelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin exhālāre (“to breathe out”).

• Hyphenation: e‧xa‧lar

exalar (first-person singular present exalo, first-person singular preterite exalei, past participle exalado)

1. (transitive, sometimes pronominal) to give off a smell

   Synonyms: emanar, emitir, soltar

   Essa flor exala um forte aroma.

   This flower gives off a strong aroma.

   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A morte de Bertha [Bertha’s death]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 221:

     O seu pequeno corpo, macio, feito da brancura das assucenas que desabrocham em maio, exhalava como que um aroma de flôr.

     Her small, soft body, made of the whiteness of lilies blooming in May, exhaled a scent like that of a flower.

2. (figurative, transitive) to ooze; to exude (to display an emotion blatantly)

   Synonym: exuberar

   Ela exalava alegria o dia inteiro.

   She was oozing joy the whole day.

3. (figurative, transitive) to let out an audible expression (such as a sigh, complaint, shout or snore)

   Synonyms: dar, soltar

4. (chiefly in translated works, intransitive) to exhale (to breathe out)

   Synonym: expirar

5. (chiefly in translated works, transitive) to exhale (to expel from the lungs)

   Synonym: soltar

• inalar
• inspirar

• “exalar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025