segar

segar (plural segars)

1. Obsolete form of cigar.
   • c. 1867 in advertisement by American lithographer Frederick Heppenheimer of F. Heppenheimer & Co. (1867):

     The first nines segars manufactured from the best Vuelta Abajo tobacco by A.H.A.

• agers, Sarge, Argeș, Geras, SEGRA, Regas, sager, rages, gaser, GRASE, Sager, Agers, gears, garse, sarge, regas

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA^(key): /seˈɡa(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: se‧gar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

• “segar”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA^(key): /seˈɡaɾ/ [seˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧gar

segar

1. to reap

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈɣaɾ]
• Homophone: cegar

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguí, past participle segat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to reap, to mow

   Synonym: dallar

2. (transitive) to chafe
3. (transitive, figurative) to mow down
4. (transitive, figurative) to exhaust (limbs)
   • 1956, Josep-Sebastià Pons, Llibre de les set sivelles:

     Maleït sigui el castell amb tantes escales i tants graons de pedra dura que m'han segat les cames.

     Damn the castle with so many stairways and so many hard stone steps which have worn out my legs.

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese segar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin secāre (“to cut”).

• Rhymes: -aɾ

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguei, past participle segado)

1. to scythe; to reap, harvest

• sega
• segador

• “segar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “segar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “segar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “segar”, 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), “segar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “segar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Malay سݢر (segar), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *se(ŋ)ger (“feel fit, healthy”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈɡar/ [səˈɡar]
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: se‧gar

segar (comparative lebih segar, superlative paling segar)

1. healthy
2. fresh

• “segar” 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.

Inherited from Old Spanish segar, from Latin secāre.

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

• Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac (1995) Diccionario del judeoespañol de los sefardíes del norte de Marruecos: Jaquetía tradicional y moderna, Caracas: Centro de Estudios Sefardíes de Caracas, →ISBN, page 645

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *se(ŋ)ger (“feel fit, healthy”). Cognate with Old Javanese seger and Balinese seger.

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /səˈɡa(r)/ [səˈɡa(r)]
  • Rhymes: -əɡar, -əɡa, -ɡar, -ɡa, -ar, -a

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /səˈɡar/ [səˈɡar]
  • Rhymes: -əɡar, -ɡar, -ar
• Hyphenation: se‧gar

segar (Jawi spelling سݢر)

1. healthy, fit (of plants, animals, humans)

   Synonyms: sihat, cergas, subur

2. fresh (of air)

   Synonyms: nyaman, sedap, enak

• > Indonesian: segar (inherited)

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

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA^(key): /s̺ɨˈɡaɾ/, [s̺ɨˈɣaɾ]

segar

1. to reap

From Old Occitan segar, from Latin secāre.

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segar

1. to harvest

From Latin secāre (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈɡaɾ/

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

• Fala: segal
• Galician: segar
• Portuguese: segar

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “segar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “segar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA^(key): /seˈɡaɾ/

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

• Ladino: segar
• Spanish: segar

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “segar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 460

From Old Galician-Portuguese segar, from Latin secāre (“to cut”).

• Homophone: cegar
• Hyphenation: se‧gar

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguei, past participle segado)

1. to scythe; to reap (to cut with a scythe)

   Synonyms: ceifar, gadanhar

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

Inherited from Old Spanish segar, from Latin secāre.

• IPA^(key): /seˈɡaɾ/ [seˈɣ̞aɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧gar

segar (first-person singular present siego, first-person singular preterite segué, past participle segado)

1. to harvest; to reap

   Synonym: cosechar

2. to mow

   Synonym: tundir

• “segar”, 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

segar

1. present indicative of sega

• gaser, segra

• siegar

Inherited from Latin secāre. Compare Italian segare.

segar

1. (transitive) to saw

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

• s(i)ega