murmurar

• marmurar (popular form)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese murmurar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably borrowed from Latin murmurāre, present active infinitive of murmurō.

• IPA^(key): [muɾmuˈɾaɾ]

murmurar (first-person singular present murmuro, first-person singular preterite murmurei, past participle murmurado)

1. to speak negatively about someone who is not present; to gossip
   • 1886, Antonio Machado y Alvarez, Folk-lore español: Biblioteca de las tradiciones populares españoles ..., page 212:

     Por cantar e estar alegre /nunca se perdeu ninguén /pérdese por marmurar /vidas de xente de ben.

     Singing and having fun /never damned no one /but the lives of good people/ are lost because of gossiping

   Synonym: rexoubar

2. to murmur, whisper
3. to mutter, grumble

   Synonym: rosmar

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

From Old Portuguese murmurar, probably borrowed from Latin murmurāre.

• Hyphenation: mur‧mu‧rar

murmurar (first-person singular present murmuro, first-person singular preterite murmurei, past participle murmurado)

1. to murmur, whisper
2. to mutter, grumble
3. to ripple
4. to rustle
5. inflection of murmurar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• murmúrio m

From Old Spanish murmurar, borrowed from Latin murmurāre, present active infinitive of murmurō[1]. Cf. also the popular Old Spanish variant mormurar.

• IPA^(key): /muɾmuˈɾaɾ/ [muɾ.muˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mur‧mu‧rar

murmurar (first-person singular present murmuro, first-person singular preterite murmuré, past participle murmurado)

1. (transitive) to murmur, to mutter
2. (intransitive) to murmur
3. (intransitive) to gossip

• chismear

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