# donar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin donāre. Replaced older dar. Compare Occitan donar, French donner, Sicilian dunari.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [duˈna]
* IPA: (Balearic) [doˈna]
* IPA: (Valencia) [doˈnaɾ]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

donar (first-person singular present dono, first-person singular preterite doní, past participle donat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/
* to give

#### Derived terms

* donable
* donada
* donant
* donar a conèixer
* donar a menjar
* donar la volta
* donar per descomptat
* donar volta
* donar voltes
* donar-se
* donar-se per vençut
* donat

#### Related terms

* adonar-se
* do
* donació
* donador
* donatari
* donatisme
* donatiu

### Further reading

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

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin dōnāre.

### Verb

donar (ORB, broad)
* to give
    Synonym: balyér (much more common)

### References

* donar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

### Further information

* ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 417: “donné” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “donare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 136

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto doni, from French donner, Italian donare, Spanish donar, from Latin dōnāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doˈnar/

### Verb

donar (present tense donas, past tense donis, future tense donos, imperative donez, conditional donus)
* (transitive) to give

#### Derived terms

* dono (“giving”)
* donajo (“gift”)
* donema (“generous”)
* donajo (“datum”)
* donaji (“data”)

### See also

* donacar

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan donar, from Latin donāre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Verb

donar
* to give

#### Conjugation
## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* thonar

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þunr, whence also Old Saxon thunar, Old Frisian thuner, Old English þunor.

### Noun

donar m
* thunder

#### Related terms

* Donar (“god of thunder”)

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: toner, doner
** Central Franconian:
    Hunsrik: Dunner
    Luxembourgish: Donner
** German: Donner
** Rhine Franconian: Dunner
    Frankfurterisch: IPA [d̥onæ̆], (possible pre-1825 pronunciation) [d̥unæ̆]
** Vilamovian: dunyn (likely a plural form of *duner)
** Yiddish: דונער (duner)

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin donāre.

### Verb

donar
* to give

#### Descendants

* Occitan: donar

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “donāre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 136

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin dōnāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doˈnaɾ/ [d̪oˈnaɾ]
* Audio (Bolivia):(file)
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: do‧nar

### Verb

donar (first-person singular present dono, first-person singular preterite doné, past participle donado)
* to donate

#### 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

* donación
* donador
* donante

#### Descendants

* Papiamentu: duna

### Further reading

* “donar”, 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

## Swedish
### Verb

donar
* present indicative of dona

### Anagrams

* andor, ordna, radon, rodna