abafar

Attested: 15th century. From a- +‎ bafo (“breath; vapor”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): [aβaˈfaɾ]

abafar (first-person singular present abafo, first-person singular preterite abafei, past participle abafado)

1. (transitive, cooking) to steam
2. (transitive) to steam, to fog

   Synonyms: apanar, embazar, toldar

3. (transitive) to suffocate

   Synonyms: acorar, afogar, sufocar

4. (transitive) to bother, to importune

   Synonyms: acosar, molestar

5. (intransitive) to stink; to reek
6. (intransitive) to suffocate, to choke

   Abre a fiestra que vou abafar! ― Open the window or I'm going to suffocate!

7. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to suffocate, to choke
8. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to steam up, to fog up

• “abaf” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “abafar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “abafar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “abafar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From a- +‎ bafo +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.faɾ/

abafar (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אבאפֿאר‎)

1. (cooking) to steam
2. to suffocate, choke
3. to put out (a fire) by suffocation
4. to cover (a sound) or mask (the noise)

• atabafar

From a- +‎ bafo +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧far

abafar (first-person singular present abafo, first-person singular preterite abafei, past participle abafado)

1. (transitive) to suffocate
2. (transitive) to interrupt
3. (transitive, informal) to prevent something from being made public or known; to suppress; to smother
4. (Brazil, slang, LGBT, intransitive) to slay; to hit one out of the ballpark
5. inflection of abafar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• “abafar” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “abafar” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “abafar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “abafar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “abafar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “abafar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.