regañar

• arragañar, arregañar

Related to Spanish regañar and Portuguese reganhar, arreganhar.

• IPA^(key): [reɣaˈɲaɾ]

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañei, past participle regañado)

1. (transitive, one's teeth) to show one's teeth (literally and figuratively)
   • 1837, anonymous author, O litigante labrador:

     Cando llo quixen dicir,
     puxo os ollos remelados,
     zarróu o puño pra min,
     e cos dentes regañados,
     fíxome a conta de todo,
     sen siquera descontalos;
     de tal sorte e tal maneira
     que de tales resultados
     deixáronme pez sen bota,
     eles de todo cobrados.

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From regaña (“crack”).

• IPA^(key): [reɣaˈɲaɾ]

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañei, past participle regañado)

1. (intransitive or pronominal) to crack
   • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferro-carril Compostelano:

     Cada vez a cousa engorda,
     como que incha a ollos vistos,
     Pro, si incha, non estoura;
     como o pelexo enteirizo
     da castaña agüenta e fofa
     pra levála o enemincho;
     Cando máis, si algo rebenta,
     e arregaña, é o ourizo,
     pra guindar limpa a castaña
     e roer fruto tan rico

     The thing grows at every time,
     as it swells in plain sight,
     but, although it swells, it does not burst;
     as the one-piece peel
     of the soft watery chestnuts
     you take to an enemy;
     at most, if something pops
     and cracks is the burr,
     to throw clean the chestnut
     and nibble such a rich fruit

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

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

Unknown. Compare Portuguese reganhar, arreganhar.

• IPA^(key): /reɡaˈɲaɾ/ [re.ɣ̞aˈɲaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ga‧ñar

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañé, past participle regañado)

1. (transitive) to scold, to tell off
2. (intransitive) to gripe, complain, whine
3. (intransitive) to bare one's teeth

• “regañar”, 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