# apalpar
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* palpar

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese palpar, borrowed from Latin palpāre (“to touch softly”). Cognate with Portuguese apalpar, Spanish palpar. Doublet of poupar, which was inherited.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /apalˈpaɾ/

### Verb

apalpar (first-person singular present apalpo, first-person singular preterite apalpei, past participle apalpado)
* (intransitive) to touch, to feel (transitive: to sense by touch)
** c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:Madre, sabes tu que Esau, meu yrmão he veloso et eu nõ, mays som lem, et se meu padre me apalpar et souber que sóóm eu, medo ey que coyde queo quis [excarnesçer], et em lugar de bendiçõ ey medo que me maldiga. Mother, you know that Esau, my brother, is hairy, but not me, I'm hairless; and if my father would touch me and find that it's me, I fear that he would think that I was mocking him, and instead of his blessing I would have his curse
** 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 226:
    Et os angeos que yam na nuve en cõpana dos apostolos çegarõ todos aqueles judeus, et hũus cayam en terra, et d'eles dauã cõ suas cabeças por las paredes, et os outros andauã aapalpando quando as pedras, quando as paredes, por hu yam hir. And the angels who were in the cloud in company of the apostles blinded those Jews, and some of them fell to the ground, and of those some hit their heads against the walls, and the rest were feeling now the stones, now the walls, for knowing where to go
    Synonym: poupar
* to grope (to search by feeling)
    Synonym: poupar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* Apalpador
* ás apalpadas

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “apalpar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “palp”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “apalpar”, 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), “apalpar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “apalpar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “apalpar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “palpar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, borrowed from Latin palpāre. Doublet of palpar and poupar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.pawˈpa(ʁ)/ [a.paʊ̯ˈpa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.pawˈpa(ʁ)/ [a.paʊ̯ˈpa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.pawˈpa(ɾ)/ [a.paʊ̯ˈpa(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.pawˈpa(ʁ)/ [a.paʊ̯ˈpa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.pawˈpa(ɻ)/ [a.paʊ̯ˈpa(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.palˈpaɾ/ [ɐ.paɫˈpaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.palˈpaɾ/ [ɐ.paɫˈpaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.palˈpa.ɾi/ [ɐ.paɫˈpa.ɾi]

### Verb

apalpar (first-person singular present apalpo, first-person singular preterite apalpei, past participle apalpado)
* (intransitive) feel (transitive: to sense by touch)
    Synonym: tocar
* grope (to search by feeling)

#### Conjugation

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