exalar
Portuguese
editAlternative forms
edit- exhalar (pre-reform)
Etymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin exhālāre (“to breath out”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: e‧xa‧lar
Verb
editexalar (first-person singular present exalo, first-person singular preterite exalei, past participle exalado)
- (transitive, sometimes pronominal) to give off a smell
- Synonyms: emanar, emitir, soltar
- Essa flor exala um forte aroma.
- This flower gives off a strong aroma.
- 1905, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A morte de Bertha [Bertha’s death]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies][1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, page 221:
- O seu pequeno corpo, macio, feito da brancura das assucenas que desabrocham em maio, exhalava como que um aroma de flôr.
- Her small, soft body, made of the whiteness of lilies blooming in May, exhaled a scent like that of a flower.
- (figurative, transitive) to ooze; to exude (to display an emotion blatantly)
- Synonym: exuberar
- Ela exalava alegria o dia inteiro.
- She was oozing joy the whole day.
- (figurative, transitive) to let out an audible expression (such as a sigh, complaint, shout or snore)
- (chiefly in translated works, intransitive) to exhale (to breathe out)
- Synonym: expirar
- (chiefly in translated works, transitive) to exhale (to expel from the lungs)
- Synonym: soltar
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of exalar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Antonyms
editFurther reading
edit- “exalar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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