pagar

Borrowed from Malay pagar.

pagar (plural pagars)

1. (obsolete) A fence, in parts of Asia.
   • 1848, Hugh Low, Sarawak, Its Inhabitants and Productions, page 227:

     The pagars, or fences, are about six feet high, and the bars about fifteen inches one above the other; […]

Inherited from Latin pacāre.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡa(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: pa‧gar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

pagar

1. (transitive) to pay

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “pagar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin pacāre (“to pacify”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡaɾ/ [paˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pa‧gar

pagar (first-person singular indicative present pago, past participle pagáu)

1. to pay

Inherited from Old Catalan pagar, from Latin pacāre (“pacify”). Compare Occitan pagar, French payer.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈɣaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: pa‧gar
• Homophones: pegar, pagà, pegà

pagar (first-person singular present pago, first-person singular preterite paguí, past participle pagat)

1. (transitive) to pay (for/off)

• apagar
• pau

• “pagar”, 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
• “pagar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “pagar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pagar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɡ̊ɑr/

pagar (genitive pagari, partitive pagarit)

1. baker

Declension of pagar (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		pagar	pagarid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	pagari
genitive			pagarite
partitive		pagarit	pagareid
illative		pagarisse	pagaritesse pagareisse
inessive		pagaris	pagarites pagareis
elative		pagarist	pagaritest pagareist
allative		pagarile	pagaritele pagareile
adessive		pagaril	pagaritel pagareil
ablative		pagarilt	pagaritelt pagareilt
translative		pagariks	pagariteks pagareiks
terminative		pagarini	pagariteni
essive		pagarina	pagaritena
abessive		pagarita	pagariteta
comitative		pagariga	pagaritega

From Old Galician-Portuguese pagar, from Latin pacāre (“pacify”).

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: pa‧gar

pagar (first-person singular present pago, first-person singular preterite paguei, past participle pagado, short past participle pago)

1. (intransitive or transitive) to pay
2. (pronominal) to enjoy oneself; to please, satisfy

• debíalle un día ao demo e funllo pagar hoxe
• despagar
• pagado

• paz

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

• “pagar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

pagar (present tense pagas, past tense pagis, future tense pagos, imperative pagez, conditional pagus)

1. to pay

Inherited from Malay pagar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pager (“enclosure; palisade around a village; fence around a planted tree or cultivated field”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɡar]
• Hyphenation: pa‧gar
• Rhymes: -ar

pagar (plural pagar-pagar)

1. fence, hedge

• “pagar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pager”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Inherited from Old Spanish pagar (“to repay”), from Latin pacāre (“pacify”).

pagar (Hebrew spelling פאגאר)^[1]

1. (transitive) to pay (with currency)
   • 1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, לז׳נדאס‎^[1], נור, page 207:

     Kuando boltó el halvadjí i avrió la kasha para pagar parás, no topó mas nada adientro.

     When the candyman turned around and opened the cash register to pay in Ottoman coins, there was no longer anything inside.

2. (reflexive) to be paid up
   • (Can we date this quote?), Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[2], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 231:

     I anke se les pagava una taksa por oka dela masá a los orneros, ma era kon fogera, ke kada uno keria tener la masá en kaza un dia antes.

     Although a fee was paid up per ounce of matzah to the bakers, everyone remained urgently wanting to have matzah at home a day earlier.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pager (“enclosure; palisade around a village; fence around a planted tree or cultivated field”).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɡa(r)/ [ˈpa.ɡa(r)]

  • Audio (Malaysia, non-rhotic):

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  • Rhymes: -aɡar, -aɡa, -ɡar, -ɡa, -ar, -a
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɡar/ [ˈpa.ɡar]

  • Audio (Malaysia, rhotic):

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  • Rhymes: -aɡar, -ɡar, -ar
• Hyphenation: pa‧gar

pagar (Jawi spelling ڤاݢر, plural pagar-pagar)

1. A fence.

   pagar besi ― metal fence

   1. Something that resembles a fence.

pagar (Jawi spelling ڤاݢر)

1. Infinitive of memagar.

• > Indonesian: pagar (inherited)
• → Pangutaran Sama: pagal
• → Tausug: pagal

• “pagar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pager”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Old Occitan pagar, from Latin pacāre (“pacify”).

• IPA^(key): [paˈɣa]

• Audio:

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pagar

1. to pay

• pagament

• patz

From Old Galician-Portuguese pagar, from Latin pacāre (“to pacify”).

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Hyphenation: pa‧gar

pagar (first-person singular present pago, first-person singular preterite paguei, past participle pagado, short past participle pago)

1. to pay
   1. (intransitive, transitive) to give [someone] money in exchange for a good or service

      Pagamos/Pagámos ao vendedor pelas maçãs. ― We paid the salesman for the apples.

   2. (transitive) (to give money in order to discharge [a debt or bill])

      Paga/Pague a renda! ― Pay the rent!

      Synonym: quitar

   3. (transitive) to pay for; to buy (to give money in exchange for [a good or service])

      Paguei um almoço ao mendigo. ― I bought lunch for the beggar.

      Synonym: comprar

   4. (informal, intransitive) to suffer negative consequences

      Eles devem pagar pelo roubo. ― They must pay for the theft.

      Synonym: ver

2. (Brazil, transitive) to do (exercises, physical activities), especially as punishment

   O cadete que tropeçou teve que pagar duas voltas ao redor do campo. ― The cadet who tripped had to do two laps around the field.

3. (Brazil, transitive, followed by de) to pretend to be, to feign an attribute or style

   pagar de inteligente

   to pretend to be smart

   pagar de rico

   to pretend to be rich

4. (colloquial, transitive) to accidentally expose one's intimate body part or undergarment
   • 2014 August 19, Felipe Castilho, Prata, Terra & Lua Cheia, Gutemberg, →ISBN:

     Preencheu os bolsos com as lascas de prata, que pesavam, e isso fazia sua única veste escorregar um pouco para baixo. Não se importaria de pagar cofrinho, ninguém o observaria.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage of the long past participle form pagado is sometimes considered dated.

• apagar
• paz

• → Gujarati: પગાર (pagār)
  • → Sindhi: pagharu

    Devanagari script: पघारु

    Arabic script: پَگهارُ

  • → Urdu: پَگار (pagār)
• → Marathi: पगार (pagār)
  • → Hindi: पगार (pagār)
• → Konkani: पगार (pagār)

• “pagar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Inherited from Old Spanish pagar, from Latin pacāre (“pacify”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡaɾ/ [paˈɣ̞aɾ]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pa‧gar

pagar (first-person singular present pago, first-person singular preterite pagué, past participle pagado)

1. to pay

   Synonym: comprar

2. (intransitive) to be worthwhile, to have a pay off

   Synonym: valer la pena

• “pagar”, 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

• grapa

• IPA^(key): /paˈɡar/

pagar

1. (transitive) to pay

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.