# escamar
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əs.kəˈma]
* IPA: (Valencia) [es.kaˈmaɾ]

### Etymology 1

From escama (“scale; flake”) +‎ -ar.

#### Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)
* (transitive) to flake (to break or chip off in a flake)
* (transitive, Valencia) to scale (to remove the scales of)
    Synonym: escatar

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

Alternative form of escamnar, influenced by Spanish escamar.

#### Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamí, past participle escamat)
* (transitive, Valencia) to scold
    Synonyms: renyar, (Valencian) bonegar
* (transitive, Valencia) Alternative form of escamnar (“to teach a lesson”)
* (transitive, Valencia) Alternative form of escamnar (“to make suspicious; to make distrust”)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3

From es- +‎ cama (“leg”) +‎ -ar.

#### Verb

escamar
* (Balearic) only used in s'... escamar, syntactic variant of escamar-se, infinitive of escamar-se (“to escape; to run around”)

### Further reading

* “escamar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “escamar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “escamar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “escamar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escamar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from escama +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [eskɑˈmaɾ]

### Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)
* (transitive) to scale (to remove the scales of)
* (transitive) to scald
    Synonym: escaldar
* (transitive) to clean and separate the peritoneum from the innards of a slaughtered animal
* (transitive) to cause mistrust
* (pronominal) to back down

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* escama

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From escama (“scale; flake”) +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /is.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [is.kaˈma(h)], /es.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [es.kaˈma(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /is.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [is.kaˈma(h)], /es.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [es.kaˈma(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /is.kaˈma(ɾ)/, /es.kaˈma(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃ.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [iʃ.kaˈma(χ)], /eʃ.kaˈma(ʁ)/ [eʃ.kaˈma(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /es.kaˈma(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.kɐˈmaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.kɐˈmaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.kɐˈma.ɾi/

### Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamei, past participle escamado)
* to scale (remove the scales from a fish)

#### Conjugation

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From escama +‎ -ar; partly derived from Latin dēsquamāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eskaˈmaɾ/ [es.kaˈmaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: es‧ca‧mar

### Verb

escamar (first-person singular present escamo, first-person singular preterite escamé, past participle escamado)
* to remove the scales from
* to make distrustful
* (colloquial) to frighten

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* escama

### Further reading

* “escamar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10