ferir

• firir
• ḥerir

Inherited from Old Leonese ferir, firir, from Latin ferire

ferir (first-person singular indicative present fero, past participle feríu)

1. to injure,hurt

   Synonym: mancar

2. to beat, hit

• ferida

• "ferir" in Diccionario General de la Lengua Asturiana (DGLA)

Inherited from Latin ferīre (compare Occitan ferir, French férir, Spanish herir), of Proto-Indo-European origin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [feˈɾiɾ]

ferir (first-person singular present fereixo, first-person singular preterite ferí, past participle ferit)

1. to injure, to wound
2. to hurt (emotionally)

• ferida
• malferir

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

• firir, frir

From Old Galician-Portuguese ferir, from Latin ferīre.

• IPA^(key): /feˈɾiɾ/

ferir (first-person singular present firo, third-person singular present fere, first-person singular preterite ferín, past participle ferido)
ferir (first-person singular present firo, third-person singular present fere, first-person singular preterite ferim or feri, past participle ferido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to injure, wound
2. (dated) to hit, strike, beat
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (1975), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 111:

     Et sua oraçõ acabada, baixarõ as lãças et forõ ferir ẽnos mouros et chamãdo "Sanctiago!"

     After they finished their prayer, they lowered their spears and went to hit the Moors while shouting "Saint James!"

• ferida
• ferido

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

From Old French ferir, from Latin ferīre.

ferir

1. to hit; to strike

• frapper, fraper
• assommer

• French: férir

From Latin ferīre.

ferir

1. to hit, to strike, to pierce
   • c. 1250, Marie de France, Equitan:

     m'est une anguisse el quer ferue, ki tut le cors me fet trembler

     Such a pain has pierced my heart, that makes my whole body quiver

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem fier distinct from the unstressed stem fer, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: ferir
  • French: férir

• firir (Asturias)

From Latin ferīre.

ferir

1. to hurt, injure
   • 1017, Fuero de León‎^[1]:

     Se algun omne ferir a otro

     If a man hurts another

   • 1295, Fuero o Carta Puebla de Oviedo‎^[2]:

     Etsi al canpo yxieren et non se firieren

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1296, Fuero de Çamora‎^[3]:

     Omne que a otro omne ferir, vaya el ferido o demuestre elas feridas a bonos omens [...] Todo omne que ferir a otro omne seguro con cuchielo o con otra arma qual quier de que lo livore, muerra por ello

     (If a) man injures another man, the injured will go to show the injuries to good men [...] Any man who injures another man with a knife or any other weapon that injuries him, dies for it.

• Asturian: firir, ferir
• Leonese: ferir

From Old Galician-Portuguese ferir, from Latin ferīre, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

• Hyphenation: fe‧rir

ferir (first-person singular present firo, third-person singular present fere, first-person singular preterite feri, past participle ferido)

1. to hurt, injure