esquinar

From esquina +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: es‧qui‧nar

esquinar (first-person singular present esquino, first-person singular preterite esquinei, past participle esquinado)

1. (transitive) to corner; skew
2. (transitive) to cut at an angle; facet
3. (intransitive) to turn a corner
4. (intransitive, informal) to flee; sneak away
5. (pronominal) to get a little drunk

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

From esquina +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /eskiˈnaɾ/ [es.kiˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧qui‧nar

esquinar (first-person singular present esquino, first-person singular preterite esquiné, past participle esquinado)

1. to be on the corner (of)
2. to corner, put (something) into a corner
3. to square off, square
4. to tick off (annoy)

• “esquinar”, 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