mamar

mamar (first-person singular indicative present mamo, past participle mamáu)

1. to suckle (milk from a mother's breast)

   Synonym: zucar

2. to learn something while growing up (a child)
3. (reflexive) to get drunk

   Synonym: enfilar

4. (transitive) to get hit, to receive a beating

• “mamar” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
• “mamar” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamí, past participle mamat)

1. to suckle

• “mamar”, 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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mamar, from Late Latin mammō, from Latin mamma + -o. By surface analysis, mama +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /maˈmaɾ/ [mãˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ

mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamei, past participle mamado)

1. to suckle

Inherited from Late Latin mammō, from Latin mamma + -o.

mamar

1. to suckle (to suck milk from a nursing mother)
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, chapter 220, in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, page 92v:

     Et ao maỹs peq̃no chamauã aternates, ⁊ era moço peq̃no de tr̃s años q̃ aỹnda mamaua.

     And the youngest one they called Astyanax(?), and he was a little three-year-old boy that still suckled.

• Fala: mamal
• Galician: mamar
• Portuguese: mamar

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “mamado”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mama”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• mammar (pre-standardization spelling)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mamar, from Late Latin mammō, from Latin mamma + -o. By surface analysis, mama +‎ -ar.

mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamei, past participle mamado)

1. to suckle
2. (colloquial) to drink
3. (colloquial, somewhat vulgar) to perform oral sex, especially fellatio

Borrowed from French mammaire.

mamar m or n (feminine singular mamară, masculine plural mamari, feminine and neuter plural mamare)

1. mammary

Inherited from Latin mammāre, from mamma (“breast”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈmaɾ/ [maˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧mar

mamar (first-person singular present mamo, first-person singular preterite mamé, past participle mamado)

1. to suckle
2. to suck
3. to blow (give a blowjob)
4. (colloquial) pocket (illegally)
5. to bullshit or fuck around
6. (vulgar) to fuck

• “mamar”, 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