# callar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin chalāre, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəˈʎa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kaˈʎaɾ]

### Verb

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callí, past participle callat)
* (intransitive) to be silent, to be quiet
    El meu home calla. ― My husband doesn't say a word.
* (intransitive) to hush, to stop talking, to become silent
    Si us plau, calleu! ― Please, silence!
* (transitive) to hush, to make silent
    I llavors el va fer callar. ― And then he shut him up.
* (transitive or reflexive) to say nothing about, to not mention
    Aquestes coses se les calla. ― She does not mention such things.

#### Conjugation
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* coallar, cuallar
* coalhar, calhar (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin coagulare (“coagulate”). Cognate with Portuguese coalhar and Spanish cuajar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.ˈʎaɾ/

### Verb

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callei, past participle callado)
* to curdle, solidify
** c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 183:desque entra o verão, por que estonçes se começã a rreter et deslyr as neues et as geadas que o poder do frio tem coalladasas soon as summer starts, because it's then that there begin to thaw and thin the snows and frosts that the power of the cold maintains curdled
* to coagulate
    Synonym: coagular

#### Derived terms

* callada
* callón

### References

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *callāre, from Latin chalāre, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō). Compare Portuguese calar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈʝaɾ/ [kaˈʝaɾ]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaˈʝaɾ/ [kaˈʝaɾ]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kaˈʎaɾ/ [kaˈʎaɾ]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃaɾ/ [kaˈʃaɾ]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒaɾ/ [kaˈʒaɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ca‧llar

### Verb

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callé, past participle callado)
* to calm
    Synonyms: calmar, tranquilizar
* (reflexive) to be silent, to shut up
    ¿Por qué no te callas?Why don’t you shut up?
* to keep silent
* (intransitive) to hush, to become silent
* (transitive) to hush, to make silent
* to not mention

#### 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.
$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Derived terms

* al jugar y perder, pagar y callar
* calladamente
* calladita
* callado
* callandico
* callar la boca
* callarse
* callarse como una puta
* callarse la boca
* comer y callar
* no callarse ni bajo el agua; no callarse ni debajo del agua
* quien calla, otorga

### Further reading

* “callar”, 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