rebolar

• arrebolar

Probably from re- +‎ bola (“ball”) +‎ -ar.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [reβoˈlaɾ]

rebolar (first-person singular present rebolo, first-person singular preterite rebolei, past participle rebolado)

1. (transitive) to throw rolling down
2. (intransitive or pronominal) to roll

   Synonyms: rodar, rolar

3. (transitive) to throw, shoot (specially, a long object which is made to turn over its axis)

   Synonym: tirar

   • 1838, Florencio Pol, Espello de Diputados:

     No medio da cantarela
     á rapaza é chanceeira,
     e o arrechegarme á ela
     arrebolame á monteira.

     In the middle of the song,
     the girl is fond of jokes,
     and as I got near
     she threw away my cap

4. (transitive) to skim (a container with a rebolo)

   Synonym: rasar

• rebola (“levelling rod, strickle”)
• rebolada (“shot, throw”)
• reboladizo (“throwing”)
• rebolo (“levelling rod, strickle”)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rebolar”, 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), “rebolar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arrebolar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From re- +‎ bola +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: re‧bo‧lar

rebolar (first-person singular present rebolo, first-person singular preterite rebolei, past participle rebolado)

1. (transitive) to roll
2. (transitive) to precipitate from above
3. (transitive) to wiggle
4. (intransitive, pronominal) to move, roll over
5. (intransitive, pronominal) to wobble
6. (intransitive, pronominal) to twerk (to dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in twerking)

• reboliço

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