# regañar
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* arragañar, arregañar

### Etymology 1

Related to Spanish regañar and Portuguese reganhir.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [reɣaˈɲaɾ]

#### Verb

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañei, past participle regañado)
* (transitive, one's teeth) to show one's teeth (literally and figuratively)
** 1837, anonymous author, O litigante labrador:Cando llo quixen dicir, puxo os ollos remelados, zarróu o puño pra min, e cos dentes regañados, fíxome a conta de todo, sen siquera descontalos; de tal sorte e tal maneira que de tales resultados deixáronme pez sen bota, eles de todo cobrados.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From regaña (“crack”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [reɣaˈɲaɾ]

#### Verb

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañei, past participle regañado)
* (intransitive or pronominal) to crack
** 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferro-carril Compostelano:Cada vez a cousa engorda, como que incha a ollos vistos, Pro, si incha, non estoura; como o pelexo enteirizo da castaña agüenta e fofa pra levála o enemincho; Cando máis, si algo rebenta, e arregaña, é o ourizo, pra guindar limpa a castaña e roer fruto tan ricoThe thing grows at every time, as it swells in plain sight, but, although it swells, it does not burst; as the one-piece peel of the soft watery chestnuts you take to an enemy; at most, if something pops and cracks is the burr, to throw clean the chestnut and nibble such a rich fruit

##### Conjugation
#### Further reading

* “regañar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “regañar”, 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), “regañar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “regañar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unknown. Compare Portuguese reganhir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reɡaˈɲaɾ/ [re.ɣ̞aˈɲaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: re‧ga‧ñar

### Verb

regañar (first-person singular present regaño, first-person singular preterite regañé, past participle regañado)
* (transitive) to scold, to tell off
* (intransitive) to gripe, complain, whine
* (intransitive) to bare one's teeth

#### 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

* a regañadientes
* regañarse

#### Related terms

* regaño
* regañón
* regañoso

### Further reading

* “regañar”, 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