forrar

Circa 1370. From Old French forrer (“to furnish”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare English fodder), from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *pat- (“to feed”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /foˈraɾ/

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forrei, past participle forrado)

1. (transitive) to line, to insert a lining
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     Et era forrado en pẽna armjña

     And it was lined in ermine fur

2. (transitive) to cover, to put a cover on
3. (transitive) to put a wedge under a wheel

• forra (“small stone used as filling; wedge”)
• forro (“cover”)

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

• Hyphenation: for‧rar

From forro (“lining”) +‎ -ar.

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forrei, past participle forrado)

1. to line, to insert a lining
2. to cover, to put a cover on
3. to carpet

From forro (“free”) +‎ -ar.

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forrei, past participle forrado)

2. to save; to economize

   Synonyms: economizar, poupar

• forreta

Borrowed from French fourrer.

• IPA^(key): /foˈraɾ/ [foˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fo‧rrar

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forré, past participle forrado)

1. (transitive) to line, cover the inside

   Synonym: aforrar

2. (transitive) to put a cover on a book
3. (transitive) to overlay
4. (reflexive, colloquial) to become rich, to make a killing

   Synonym: enriquecerse

   • 2015 November 17, Carmen Pérez-Lanzac, “Las franquicias toman el centro”, in El País‎^[1]:

     ¿Logrará, como sueña, crear una red de locales? ¿Se forrará?

     Will she succeed in creating a network of locations, like she dreams of? Will she make a fortune?

5. (Spain, transitive, vulgar) to fuck

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder

• “forrar”, 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