bailar

From Late Latin ballare.

bailar

1. to dance

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “bailar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

bailar (first-person singular indicative present bailo, past participle bailáu)

1. Alternative form of baillar

From Old Galician Old Portuguese baylar (13th century), probably from Old Occitan balar, from Late Latin ballāre.

• IPA^(key): [bajˈlaɾ]

bailar (first-person singular present bailo, first-person singular preterite bailei, past participle bailado)

1. to dance
   • 1594, anonymous, Entremés do pastores:

     anday qu'eu farey justicia

     calay e baylay si souberdes

     lets go, I'll do justice,

     shut up and dance if you know how

2. to turn around
3. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of bailar
4. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of bailar

• “baylar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bayl” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bailar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bailar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bailar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Hyphenation: bai‧lar

bailar (first-person singular present bailo, first-person singular preterite bailei, past participle bailado)

1. to dance

   Synonym: dançar

2. inflection of bailar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• bailável

• baylar

From Old Occitan balar, from Late Latin ballāre, from Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Compare French baller, Italian ballare.

• IPA^(key): /baiˈlaɾ/ [bai̯ˈlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bai‧lar

bailar (first-person singular present bailo, first-person singular preterite bailé, past participle bailado)

1. to dance

   No sé bailar. ― I can't dance.

2. (soccer) to dribble (the ball)

• → Finnish: bailata

• “bailar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014