# menear
## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* manear

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish menear.

### Verb

menear (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מיניאר)
* (transitive, intransitive) to move (get in motion or put something in motion)
** 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎, page 155:Ariví al espital de Kfar Saba, i me echaron ayá sin poderme menear.I arrived at the Kfar Saba hospital, and they laid me down there without me being able to move myself.
* (transitive, intransitive) to shake (wiggle)
** 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎, page 119:Alberto kontinuó a menear la kavesa en sinyo de dezaprovasión, sospirando: "A, komo se puede ser ansí!…"Albert kept shaking his head as a sign of disapproval, sighing, ‘Ugh, how can it be like this…!’
* (transitive, intransitive) to stir (something); mix (something) around

#### Derived terms

* menearse

### References

* ↑ “menear”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Variation of menar, from Latin mināre (“to drive”).

### Verb

menear
* to shake (wiggle)

#### Descendants

* Ladino: manear, menear, מיניאר, מאניאר
* Spanish: menear

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “menear”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 335

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /me.neˈa(ʁ)/ [me.neˈa(h)], /me.niˈa(ʁ)/ [me.nɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /meˈnja(ʁ)/ [meˈnja(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /me.neˈa(ʁ)/ [me.neˈa(h)], /me.niˈa(ʁ)/ [me.nɪˈa(h)], (faster pronunciation) /meˈnja(ʁ)/ [meˈnja(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /me.neˈa(ɾ)/, /me.niˈa(ɾ)/ [me.nɪˈa(ɾ)], (faster pronunciation) /meˈnja(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /me.neˈa(ʁ)/ [me.neˈa(χ)], /me.niˈa(ʁ)/ [me.nɪˈa(χ)], (faster pronunciation) /meˈnja(ʁ)/ [meˈnja(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /me.neˈa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨˈnjaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨˈnjaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /mɨˈnja.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: me‧ne‧ar

### Verb

menear (first-person singular present meneio, first-person singular preterite meneei, past participle meneado)
* (transitive) to wiggle, wag, shake
* (Rio Grande do Sul) to handle or to manage with the hands
    Synonym: manejar
* (Rio Grande do Sul) to strike or to hit with the hands
    Synonym: golpear

#### Conjugation

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

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From manear (“(dated) to drive”), with contamination from menar (“to drive livestock”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meneˈaɾ/ [me.neˈaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: me‧ne‧ar

### Verb

menear (first-person singular present meneo, first-person singular preterite meneé, past participle meneado)
* (transitive) to wiggle, to wag, to shake
    Synonyms: rabear, zarandear
* (transitive) to hobble, to hopple (a horse)
* (reflexive) to sway, to shake

#### 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

* de no te menees
* me cago en todo que se menea
* meneársela
* meneo

### Further reading

* “menear”, 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