kevrantar

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish quebrantar (to break).

Verb

kevrantar (Hebrew spelling קיב׳ראנטאר)[1]

  1. (ambitransitive) to break (separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly)
    Antonym: reparar
    • 1940, La boz de Türkiye[1], numbers 11–34, page 36:
      Kevrantó, grito amargo y boz de nuestra exclamacion,
      Con su intelligencia y su espiritu de abnegacion.
      It has broken [a] bitter shout and our voice’s exclamation with its intelligence and its mind of devotion.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ kevrantar”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim