# desaguar
## Portuguese
### Etymology

From des- +‎ aguar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /de.zaˈɡwa(ʁ)/ [de.zaˈɡwa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /de.zaˈɡwa(ʁ)/ [de.zaˈɡwa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /de.zaˈɡwa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /de.zaˈɡwa(ʁ)/ [de.zaˈɡwa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /de.zaˈɡwa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.zɐˈɡwaɾ/ [dɨ.zɐˈɣwaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.zɐˈɡwaɾ/ [dɨ.zɐˈɣwaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.zɐˈɡwa.ɾi/ [dɨ.zɐˈɣwa.ɾi]
* Rhymes: -aɾ, -aʁ
* Hyphenation: de‧sa‧guar

### Noun

desaguar (first-person singular present (Brazilian Portuguese) deságuo or (European Portuguese) desaguo, first-person singular preterite desaguei, past participle desaguado)
* (transitive) to flow; to disembogue
    Synonym: desembocar
    o rio desagua no mar ― the river flows into the sea
** 1751 January 17, Thomaz da Silva Telles, José de Carvajal y Lancaster, “Art. XII”, in Tratado […] , Madrid, page 91; republished as José Ferreira Borges de Castro, “Reinado do Senhor D. José I”, in Collecção dos tratados, […] , volume 3, Lisbon: Imprensa nacional, 1856:E se declara que este rio que se tem por Corrientes não é o conhecido com este nome, que entra no rio da Prata acima da Cidade de Santa Fé, entre os rios Arias, e o de Santa Luzia, mas sim outro diverso que ao norte do Tropico de Capricornio desagua no rio Paraguai, que conforme a carta manuscrita que se entregará ao Commissario Portuguez, discorre da banda do Sul do rio Tepaú.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese. $^3$Superseded.

#### Related terms

* desaguadeiro
* desaguadoiro
* desaguador
* desaguadouro
* desaguamento
* desague

### Further reading

* “desaguar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “desaguar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “desaguar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “desaguar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “desaguar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “desaguar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “desaguar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From des- +‎ aguar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /desaˈɡwaɾ/ [d̪e.saˈɣ̞waɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: de‧sa‧guar

### Verb

desaguar (first-person singular present desaguo, first-person singular preterite desagüé, past participle desaguado)
* (transitive, intransitive) to drain
    Synonym: drenar
* (transitive) to waste
* (intransitive, colloquial) Synonym of orinar

#### 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

* desaguadero
* desaguador
* desagüe

#### Related terms

* aguar

### Further reading

* “desaguar”, 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