toar

Attested since the 17th century. From Latin tonāre.

• IPA^(key): /toˈaɾ/

toar (first-person singular present too, first-person singular preterite toei, past participle toado)

1. to resound

   Synonyms: resoar, soar

   • 1697, Fabián Pardiñas, Eu oín a meus avós:

     Pero tamen me dijeron
     Si o nacer do sol toaba
     Cas moitas luces do dia
     Todo o raudal istiñaban.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to thunder

   Synonym: tronar

3. (figurative) to give signs of life
   • 1922, Armando Cotarelo Valledor, Trebón, page 46:

     ¡Señor! ... ¡Señor! ... ¡Non toa! ... ¡Finou se! ... !Morreo!

     Milord!...Milord!...He doesn't give sings of life! ... He has passed away!... He has died!

• tronar
• trono

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “toar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “toar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “toar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From to (“two”) +‎ -ar (“-er”). Akin to English twoer.

toar m (definite singular toaren, indefinite plural toarar, definite plural toarane)

1. the number two
2. anyone or anything being designated the value or number of 2
   1. a specific route or line (in e.g. a public transport system), designated the number 2.
   2. an academic grade, specifically –
      1. (Norway, high school) A grade (in a scale from 1 to 6, where 6 is the best)
      2. (Norway, historical) A grade (in a scale from 1 to 6, where 1 is the best)
   3. (sports) any contestant carrying in a race the starting number of 2 in a race.
   4. the contestant either occupying second place at any given time, or achieving second place in the end.
      1. (by extension) a sidekick
   5. (card games, etc.) a playing card, chip or similar with the value of 2.
   6. (dice games) a roll of the die with the value of two, or the two-pipped side of the die.
3. (rowing, nautical) a two-rower racing shell in competitive rowing
4. (definite singular, euphemistic, vulgar) the anus, rectum

• “toar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “toer” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• Tora, orat, orta, roat, rota, tora

Inherited from Latin tonāre.

toar (first-person singular present too, first-person singular preterite toei, past participle toado) (intransitive)

1. to rumble
2. to resound, to resonate
3. to match, to accord, to harmonize [with com ‘with’]
4. (music) to harmonize, to concord
5. to make [with a] (an impression)
6. to please
7. (dialectal, Trás-os-Montes, Minho) to thunder

   Synonym: trovejar

• “toar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “toar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

From toa +‎ -ar.

toar (first-person singular present too, first-person singular preterite toei, past participle toado)

1. (transitive) to tow

• “toar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

From Old French toer, from Old Norse toga (“to pull something”).

• IPA^(key): /toˈaɾ/ [t̪oˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: to‧ar

toar (first-person singular present too, first-person singular preterite toé, past participle toado)

1. to tow

• “toar”, 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