escamar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kəˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.kaˈmaɾ]

From escama (“scale; flake”) +‎ -ar.

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)

1. (transitive) to flake (to break or chip off in a flake)
2. (transitive, Valencia) to scale (to remove the scales of)

   Synonym: escatar

Alternative form of escamnar, influenced by Spanish escamar.

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)

1. (transitive, Valencia) to scold

   Synonyms: renyar, (Valencian) bonegar

2. (transitive, Valencia) alternative form of escamnar (“to teach a lesson”)
3. (transitive, Valencia) alternative form of escamnar (“to make suspicious; to make distrust”)

From es- +‎ cama (“leg”) +‎ -ar.

escamar

1. (Balearic) only used in s'... escamar, syntactic variant of escamar-se, infinitive of escamar-se (“to escape; to run around”)

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese escamar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from escama +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): [eskɑˈmaɾ]

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)

1. (transitive) to scale (to remove the scales of)
2. (transitive) to scald

   Synonym: escaldar

3. (transitive) to clean and separate the peritoneum from the innards of a slaughtered animal
4. (transitive) to cause mistrust
5. (pronominal) to back down

• escama

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escama”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “escamar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escamar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “escamar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escamar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From escama (“scale; flake”) +‎ -ar.

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)

1. to scale (remove the scales from a fish)

From escama +‎ -ar; partly derived from Latin dēsquamāre.

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈmaɾ/ [es.kaˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧mar

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamé, past participle escamado)

1. to remove the scales from
2. to make distrustful
3. (colloquial) to frighten

• “escamar”, 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