# voar
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* voiar, voxar

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese voar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin volāre (“to fly”). Compare Portuguese voar and Spanish volar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boˈaɾ/ [boˈaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: vo‧ar

### Verb

voar (first-person singular present voo, first-person singular preterite voei, past participle voado)
* to fly
* to pass rapidly
* (transitive) to blow up, detonate, explode
** c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 137:
    Et aly veeriades escudos quebrãtar et lanças voar en peçasAnd there you would see shields to break and spears to blow up in pieces
* (figurative) to escape; to loss
** c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:Váian ao inferno a beber, Que a min ben me xiringaron E, entre mangas e riostras, Trecentos reás vöaron. Débenme, Dios sabe canto, O menos trint’e set’olas E coidaban os larpeiros De pagarmas con parolas.Let them go to Hell to drink, because they harmed me very much and, among other things, three hundred reals flew away. They owe me God knows how much, at least a hundred and fifty gallons, and the gluttons thought of paying me with banter.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### References

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

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin volāre (“to fly”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βo.ˈaɾ/
* Rhymes: -aɾ

### Verb

voar
* to fly

#### Descendants

* Galician: voar
* Portuguese: voar

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "voar"

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese voar, from Latin volāre (“to fly”). Compare Galician voar and Spanish volar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /voˈa(ʁ)/ [voˈa(h)], /vuˈa(ʁ)/ [vʊˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ʁ)/ [ˈvwa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /voˈa(ʁ)/ [voˈa(h)], /vuˈa(ʁ)/ [vʊˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ʁ)/ [ˈvwa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /voˈa(ɾ)/, /vuˈa(ɾ)/ [vʊˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /voˈa(ʁ)/ [voˈa(χ)], /vuˈa(ʁ)/ [vʊˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ʁ)/ [ˈvwa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /voˈa(ɻ)/, /vuˈa(ɻ)/ [vʊˈa(ɻ)], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvwa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvwaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvwaɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbwaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈvwa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: vo‧ar

### Verb

voar (first-person singular present voo, first-person singular preterite voei, past participle voado)
* to fly

#### Conjugation

$^1$Superseded. $^2$Brazilian Portuguese. $^3$European Portuguese.

### References

* ↑ “voar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
* ↑ “voar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

## Scots
### Etymology

From Norn vår, from Old Norse vár, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥.

### Noun

voar
* spring (season)