exhalar

Borrowed from Latin exhālāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əɡ.zəˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eɡ.zaˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

exhalar (first-person singular present exhalo, first-person singular preterite exhalí, past participle exhalat)

1. to exhale

• exhalació

exhalar (first-person singular present exhalo, first-person singular preterite exhalei, past participle exhalado)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of exalar.
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A morte de Bertha [Bertha’s death]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 221:

     O seu pequeno corpo, macio, feito da brancura das assucenas que desabrocham em maio, exhalava como que um aroma de flôr.

     Her small, soft body, made of the whiteness of lilies blooming in May, exhaled a scent like that of a flower.

From Latin exhālāre.

• IPA^(key): /eɡsaˈlaɾ/ [eɣ̞.saˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ex‧ha‧lar

exhalar (first-person singular present exhalo, first-person singular preterite exhalé, past participle exhalado)

1. to exhale

   Synonym: espirar

• “exhalar”, 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