balear

Borrowed from Latin Baleārēs (“Balearic Islands”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.leˈar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bə.leˈa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ba.leˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

balear m or f (masculine and feminine plural balears)

1. Balearic (pertaining to the Balearic Islands, the people thereof, or the Catalan dialects spoken there)

   Synonym: baleàric

balear m or f by sense (plural balears)

1. Balearic (a person from the Balearic Islands)

• Illes Balears (“Balearic Islands”)

balear m (uncountable)

1. Balearic (the dialect of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands)

• català (“Catalan”)

• eivissenc (“Eivissan, Ibizan”)
• mallorquí (“Mallorcan”)
• menorquí (“Menorcan”)

From bala +‎ -ear.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁ, (Portugal, São Paulo) -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ba‧le‧ar

balear (first-person singular present baleio, first-person singular preterite baleei, past participle baleado)

1. to hit or wound with a shot.

   Near-synonym: atirar

Learned borrowing from Latin Baleāris.

balear m or f (plural baleares)

1. Balearic (relating to the Balearic Islands)

balear m or f by sense (plural baleares)

1. Balearic (a person living in or coming from the Balearic islands).

From baleio +‎ -ar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ba‧le‧ar

balear (first-person singular present baleio, first-person singular preterite baleei, past participle baleado)

1. (Portugal) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “balear”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “balear”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “balear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “balear”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /baleˈaɾ/ [ba.leˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ba‧le‧ar

From bala (“bullet”) +‎ -ear.

balear (first-person singular present baleo, first-person singular preterite baleé, past participle baleado)

1. (transitive, Latin America) to shoot

   Synonym: abalear

From Latin Baleāris.

balear m or f (masculine and feminine plural baleares)

1. Balearic

balear m

1. Balearic

• “balear”, 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