murmurar

• marmurar (popular form)

From Old Galician-Portuguese murmurar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Latin murmurāre.

• IPA^(key): [muɾmuˈɾaɾ]

murmurar (first-person singular present murmuro, first-person singular preterite murmurei, past participle murmurado)

1. to speak negatively about someone who is not present; to gossip

   Synonym: rexoubar

   • 1886, Antonio Machado y Alvarez, Folk-lore español: Biblioteca de las tradiciones populares españoles ..., page 212:

     Por cantar e estar alegre /nunca se perdeu ninguén /pérdese por marmurar /vidas de xente de ben.

     Singing and having fun /never damned no one /but the lives of good people/ are lost because of gossiping

2. to murmur, whisper
3. to mutter, grumble

   Synonym: rosmar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “murmurar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “murmur”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marmurar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “murmurar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “murmurar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “murmurar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “murmurar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese murmurar, probably borrowed from Latin murmurāre.

• Hyphenation: mur‧mu‧rar

murmurar (first-person singular present murmuro, first-person singular preterite murmurei, past participle murmurado)

1. to murmur, whisper
2. to mutter, grumble
3. to ripple
4. to rustle

• murmúrio m

Inherited from Old Spanish murmurar, borrowed from Latin murmurāre.^[1] Cf. also the popular Old Spanish variant mormurar.

• IPA^(key): /muɾmuˈɾaɾ/ [muɾ.muˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mur‧mu‧rar

murmurar (first-person singular present murmuro, first-person singular preterite murmuré, past participle murmurado)

1. (transitive) to murmur, to mutter
2. (intransitive) to murmur
3. (intransitive) to gossip

• chismear

• “murmurar”, 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