doar

From Old Galician-Portuguese dõar, from Latin donāre (“to give”).

• IPA^(key): /doˈaɾ/

doar (first-person singular present doo, first-person singular preterite doei, past participle doado)

1. to present
2. to give
3. to donate

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

doar

1. alternative form of doer

• do n

doar m or n

1. indefinite masculine plural of do

From Old Galician-Portuguese doar, dõar, from Latin donāre.

• Hyphenation: do‧ar

doar (first-person singular present doo, first-person singular preterite doei, past participle doado)

1. (transitive) to present
2. (transitive) to give
3. (transitive) to donate

• “doar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “doar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “doar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “doar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “doar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “doar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• doară

Probably from a reduction of the variant form doară, itself probably from Latin dē hōrā. Alternative etymologies include a Vulgar Latin construction *de volat, alteration of dē velit, or that it perhaps resulted from confusion with oare, with an interrogative function, or simply that it derives from a variant of dar (“but”).

• IPA^(key): /do̯ar/
• Rhymes: -ar

doar

1. just, only, merely

   Synonyms: decât, numai

   Este doar un copil.

   He is only a child.

   Doar vreau niște lapte.

   I just want some milk.

2. only (exclusively)

   Synonyms: decât, numai

   Doar tu poți opri incendiile de pădure.

   Only you can stop forest fires.

4. (informal, in explanations) obviously, as is plain to see, after all

   că doar ― because obviously, for the obvious reason that…

   Cum să nu fie cald? Doar e vară.

   Why wouldn’t it be hot? It’s summer after all.

   Gustă, că doar nu mori!

   Taste it, it won’t kill you!

   (literally, “Taste it, because you will not die after all!”)

   Meseria asta e bine plătită, doar altfel nimeni n-ar mai vrea s-o facă.

   This profession is well paid, nobody would want to do it otherwise after all.

6. (informal, in rhetorical questions and exclamations) surely

   Cum de ești acasă? Doar n-ai terminat așa de devreme cu școala!

   How come you’re home? Surely you didn’t finish school this early!

   Doar nu e așa de rău, nu?

   Surely it can’t be that bad, right?

7. (chiefly in clauses introduced by de (“if; if only”)) Expresses the hopeful nature of an action or statement.

   Synonym: doar-doar

   Acasă o să mănânc, doar de am ajunge mai repede.

   At home I’m going to eat, if only we got there sooner.

   Face autostopul în ploaie, doar l-ar lua cineva.

   He is hitchhiking in the rain, in hope someone may give him a lift.

Senses 1, 2 and 5 take sentence stress; senses 3 and 4 are unstressed.

• doar-doar
• fără doar și poate

• “doar”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Marius Sala, Gheorghe Mihăilă, editors (2009), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 1, part 6, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, →ISBN, pages 1264–1266

From Old Frisian dure, dore, from Proto-West Germanic *dur.

• IPA^(key): /doə̯r/

doar c (plural doarren, diminutive doarke)

1. door

• “doar (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011