callar

Inherited from Latin chalāre, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈʎaɾ]

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callí, past participle callat)

1. (intransitive) to be silent, to be quiet

   El meu home calla. ― My husband doesn't say a word.

2. (intransitive) to hush, to stop talking, to become silent

   Si us plau, calleu! ― Please, silence!

3. (transitive) to hush, to make silent

   I llavors el va fer callar. ― And then he shut him up.

4. (transitive or reflexive) to say nothing about, to not mention

   Aquestes coses se les calla. ― She does not mention such things.

• coallar, cuallar
• coalhar, calhar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin coagulare (“coagulate”). Cognate with Portuguese coalhar and Spanish cuajar.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɟaɾ/ [kɑˈɟaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: ca‧llar

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callei, past participle callado)

1. to curdle, solidify
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 183:

     desque entra o verão, por que estonçes se começã a rreter et deslyr as neues et as geadas que o poder do frio tem coalladas

     as soon as summer starts, because it's then that there begin to thaw and thin the snows and frosts that the power of the cold maintains curdled

2. to coagulate

   Synonym: coagular

• callada
• callón

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coallar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coall”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “callar”, 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), “callar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “callar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “callar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *callāre, from Latin chalāre, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō). Compare Portuguese calar.

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧llar

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callé, past participle callado)

1. to calm

   Synonyms: calmar, tranquilizar

2. (reflexive) to be silent, to shut up

   ¿Por qué no te callas?

   Why don’t you shut up?

3. to keep silent
4. (intransitive) to hush, to become silent
5. (transitive) to hush, to make silent
6. to not mention

• “callar”, 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