esborrar

From es- (separative prefix) +‎ borra (“waste fibers”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əz.buˈra]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əz.boˈra]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ez.boˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

esborrar (first-person singular present esborro, first-person singular preterite esborrí, past participle esborrat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/(transitive)

1. (textiles) to remove fluff or waste fibers
2. to erase
3. to cross out

   Synonym: ratllar

4. to rub out, to efface
5. (pronominal) to disappear

• “esborrar”, 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
• “esborrar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “esborrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “esborrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.