esguerrar

• esgarrar

Alternation of earlier esgarrar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əz.ɡəˈra]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ez.ɣeˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

esguerrar (first-person singular present esguerro, first-person singular preterite esguerrí, past participle esguerrat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (historical, transitive) to tenotomize in the lower leg as punishment
2. (transitive) to cripple
3. (transitive) to ruin, spoil

• esguerrat
• esguerro

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