arrimar

Locally documented circa 1300.^[1] Related to rima (“pile”), perhaps from Proto-Celtic *ad (“to”) + *rīmā (“number, count”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ariˈmaɾ/ [a.riˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

arrimar (first-person singular present arrimo, first-person singular preterite arrimei, past participle arrimado)

1. (transitive) to add
2. (transitive) to pile
3. (transitive) to bring close
4. (transitive) to support
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 88:

     pensarõ que mellores moradas poderiam aver que as que aviam, et buscarõ mays sobre esto, et tomarõ madeyros que arrymarõ aas pẽnas et aas grandes aruores et cobriã aqueles madeyros dos rramos das aruores et das eruas

     they though that they could get better dwellings than that that they had, so they searched about this, and they took logs that they supported against boulders and against large trees, and they covered them with branches and grasses

5. (transitive, colloquial) to beat
6. (pronominal, colloquial) to live together
7. (pronominal) to lean, to get near
8. (pronominal) to search for support or protection

• achegar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “arrymar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arrimar”, 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), “arrimar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “arrimar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arrimar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ar.riˈma/

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arrimar

1. (nautical) to stow, belay

Borrowed from French arrimer or from a- +‎ rima +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: ar‧ri‧mar

arrimar (first-person singular present arrimo, first-person singular preterite arrimei, past participle arrimado)

1. (transitive) to pile up

   Synonym: empilhar

2. (transitive) to support

   Synonym: sustentar

3. (colloquial, transitive) to beat

   Synonym: bater

4. (pronominal) to lean [with a ‘on someone/something’]

   Synonym: encostar

5. (pronominal) to join, to ally oneself [with a ‘with someone/something’]
6. (pronominal) to depend, to rely [with em ‘on someone/something’]
7. (pronominal) to be based [with em ‘on someone/something’]

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Portuguese arrimar (“to support, join”) or Galician arrimar (“to add, bring close”); see those entries for more.

• IPA^(key): /ariˈmaɾ/ [a.riˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rri‧mar

arrimar (first-person singular present arrimo, first-person singular preterite arrimé, past participle arrimado)

1. (transitive) to draw near

   Synonyms: acercar, avecinar

2. (transitive) to hang up (give up doing an activity)
3. (transitive) to thwack; bash; hit
4. (intransitive, pronominal) to live in sin
5. (intransitive, pronominal, colloquial, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina) to stay living on someone's elses house at the expense of them; to live in a person's house by freeloading

• “arrimar”, 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
• “arrimar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010