mollar

Galician

Alternative forms

• molhar (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mollar (13th century), from Vulgar Latin *molliāre (“soak”), a verb based on Latin mollis (“soft”). Compare Portuguese molhar, Spanish mojar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈʎaɾ/

Verb

mollar (first-person singular present mollo, first-person singular preterite mollei, past participle mollado)

1. (transitive) to wet; to moisten
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 231:

     Et as rruas erã moy grãdes, de hũa parte et da outra, et erã feytas per grande engeño, et erã de suso cubertas de bóueda, et juso erã estradas per poyaes de boa pedra laurada, que ia tãto nõ chouj́a que home y podesse mollar o pe.

     And the streets were wide, in one side and the other, and were made with great ingenuity, and they were vaulted in the ceiling, and down they were paved with large squared stones, so that no matter how much it rained no one would wet his foot there

   • 1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:

     Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.

     lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly

2. (pronominal) to get wet (to come into contact with water)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mollar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	mollar
Personal	mollar	mollares	mollar	mollarmos	mollardes	mollaren
Gerund
	mollando
Past participle
Masculine	mollado			mollados
Feminine	mollada			molladas
Indicative
Present	mollo	mollas	molla	mollamos	mollades	mollan
Imperfect	mollaba	mollabas	mollaba	mollabamos	mollabades	mollaban
Preterite	mollei	mollaches	mollou	mollamos	mollastes	mollaron
Pluperfect	mollara	mollaras	mollara	mollaramos	mollarades	mollaran
Future	mollarei	mollarás	mollará	mollaremos	mollaredes	mollarán
Conditional	mollaría	mollarías	mollaría	mollariamos	mollariades	mollarían
Subjunctive
Present	molle	molles	molle	mollemos	molledes	mollen
Imperfect	mollase	mollases	mollase	mollásemos	mollásedes	mollasen
Future	mollar	mollares	mollar	mollarmos	mollardes	mollaren
Imperative
Affirmative		molla	molle	mollemos	mollade	mollen
Negative (non)		non molles	non molle	non mollemos	non molledes	non mollen

Antonyms

• secar

Derived terms

• mollado
• molladura
• mollar a palabra (“to drink while chatting”, literally “to wet the word”)
• mollar a palleta (“to drink”, literally “to wet the reed (bagpipe mouthpiece)”)
• mollo
• remollar
• remollo

References

• “mollar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mollar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mollar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mollar”, 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), “mollar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mollar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From muelle.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /moˈʝaɾ/ [moˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /moˈʝaɾ/ [moˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /moˈʎaɾ/ [moˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /moˈʃaɾ/ [moˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /moˈʒaɾ/ [moˈʒaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mo‧llar

Adjective

mollar m or f (masculine and feminine plural mollares)

1. mushy, soft, easy to peel
2. cushy
3. gullible

Further reading

• “mollar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28