malhar

From malho (“hammer”) +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: ma‧lhar

malhar (first-person singular present malho, first-person singular preterite malhei, past participle malhado)

1. to hammer (to strike with a hammer)
2. (agriculture) to thresh (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)

   Synonyms: espalhar, debulhar

3. to beat up (to give a severe beating to)
4. (Brazil, figuratively, slang) to make fun of, to scorn
5. (chiefly Brazil, dated, intransitive) to work out (to exercise rigorously)

   Synonym: treinar

   • 1983, Leon Ware, Marcos Valle, Paulo Sergio Valle, “Estrelar” (0:22 from the start), in Marcos Valle, performed by Marcos Valle, Rio de Janeiro: Som Livre:

     Tem que correr, tem que suar, tem que malhar (Vamos lá) / Musculação, respiração, ar no pulmão (Vamos lá)

     You must run, you must sweat, you must work out (Let's go). Weight training, respiration, air in the lungs (Let's go).

6. (Portugal, colloquial) to fall

   Synonym: cair