parlar

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

parlar

1. to speak

   Synonyms: charrar, fablar, ragonar

Inherited from Old Catalan parlar, from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre. First attested in 1178.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pərˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paɾˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Homophone: parlà

parlar (first-person singular present parlo, first-person singular preterite parlí, past participle parlat)

1. (intransitive) to speak (to communicate with one's voice)
2. (intransitive) to speak (to deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech)
3. to talk about, to mention, to address
4. (transitive) to speak (to be able to communicate in a language)

   Parles català? ― Do you speak Catalan?

• paraula

• “parlar”, 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
• “parlar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “parlar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

parlar (ORB, broad)

1. to speak

   Synonym: prègiér

2. to say

   Synonym: dére

2=parl
5=avêr

• dire in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• parlar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese parlar, borrowed from Gallo-Romance (cf. Catalan and Occitan parlar, French parler), from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈlaɾ/

parlar (first-person singular present parlo, first-person singular preterite parlei, past participle parlado)

1. to chat

   Synonyms: leriar, parolar

• parladoiro
• parlatório

• parlamento

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

Formed from Romance descendants of Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

parlar

1. to speak
2. to talk

parlar (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of parlare

From Old Occitan parlar, from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

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parlar

1. to speak

• paraula

Borrowed from Gallo-Romance (cf. Catalan and Occitan parlar, French parler), from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

parlar

1. to chatter
   • early 14th century, Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor:

     La muger que vos cree las mentiras parlando,
     et cree a los omes con mentiras jurando,
     sus manos se contuerçe del coraçón travando,
     que mal se lava la cara con lágrimas llorando.

     The woman who believes your lies you speak,
     and believes men when they swear with lies,
     wrings her hands, clutching at her heart,
     for she poorly washes her face with weeping tears.

• Spanish: parlar

Borrowed from Gallo-Romance (cf. Catalan and Occitan parlar, French parler), from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

• Hyphenation: par‧lar

parlar (first-person singular present parlo, first-person singular preterite parlei, past participle parlado)

1. (ambitransitive) to chat

   Synonym: parolar

• palrar

• “parlar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “parlar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “parlar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “parlar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “parlar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “parlar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈlaɾ/ [paɾˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: par‧lar
• (Rioplatense) IPA^(key): /paˈla/
• (Puerto Rico) IPA^(key): /paɹˈlaɹ/

Inherited from Old Spanish parlar (1293), borrowed from Gallo-Romance (cf. Catalan and Occitan parlar, French parler), from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre.

parlar (first-person singular present parlo, first-person singular preterite parlé, past participle parlado)

1. (intransitive, now rare) to chatter

   Synonyms: cotorrear, parlotear

Borrowed from Italian parlare

parlar (first-person singular present parlo, first-person singular preterite parlé, past participle parlado)

1. (chiefly Rioplatense) to speak

   Synonym: hablar

• → Quechua: parlay

• “parlar”, 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

From Early Medieval Latin parabolāre. Compare Italian parlare.

parlar

1. to speak

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

• paroła