esberlar

Uncertain. Possibly from an unattested Vulgar Latin *exvirgulāre from virgula (“small rod or twig”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əz.bərˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ez.beɾˈlaɾ]

esberlar (first-person singular present esberlo, first-person singular preterite esberlí, past participle esberlat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitive) to cleave, to split, to splinter
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to split, to splinter

   El partit començava a esberlar-se en dues parts.

   The party started to split into two parts.

• esberla

• “esberlar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007