# forrar
## Galician
### Etymology

Circa 1370. From Old French forrer (“to furnish”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare English fodder), from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *pat- (“to feed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /foˈraɾ/

### Verb

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forrei, past participle forrado)
* (transitive) to line, to insert a lining
** 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:Et era forrado en pẽna armjñaAnd it was lined in ermine fur
* (transitive) to cover, to put a cover on
* (transitive) to put a wedge under a wheel

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* forra (“small stone used as filling; wedge”)
* forro (“cover”)

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /foˈʁa(ʁ)/ [foˈha(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /foˈʁa(ʁ)/ [foˈha(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /foˈʁa(ɾ)/ [foˈha(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /foˈʁa(ʁ)/ [foˈχa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /foˈʁa(ɻ)/ [foˈha(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /fuˈʁaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /fuˈʁaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /fuˈʁa.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: for‧rar

### Etymology 1

From forro (“lining”) +‎ -ar.

#### Verb

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forrei, past participle forrado)
* to line, to insert a lining
* to cover, to put a cover on
* to carpet

##### Conjugation

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

### Etymology 2

From forro (“free”) +‎ -ar.

#### Verb

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forrei, past participle forrado)
* to save; to economize
    Synonyms: economizar, poupar

##### Conjugation

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

##### Derived terms

* forreta

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fourrer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /foˈraɾ/ [foˈraɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: fo‧rrar

### Verb

forrar (first-person singular present forro, first-person singular preterite forré, past participle forrado)
* (transitive) to line, cover the inside
    Synonym: aforrar
* (transitive) to put a cover on a book
* (transitive) to overlay
* (reflexive, colloquial) to become rich, to make a killing
    Synonym: enriquecerse
** 2015 November 17, Carmen Pérez-Lanzac, “Las franquicias toman el centro”, in El País‎:¿Logrará, como sueña, crear una red de locales? ¿Se forrará?Will she succeed in creating a network of locations, like she dreams of? Will she make a fortune?
* (Spain, transitive, vulgar) to fuck
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder

#### 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.

#### Derived terms

* forrado
* forro

#### Related terms

* aforrar
* forraje

### Further reading

* “forrar”, 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