tomar

tomar (first-person singular indicative present tomo, past participle tomáu)

1. to drink (consume liquid through the mouth)
2. to take
3. to cover
4. to go, travel

• tumar

Borrowed from Spanish tomar (“to take”).

• Hyphenation: to‧mar
• IPA^(key): /toˈmaɾ/

tomár

1. (transitive) to take medicine
2. (transitive) to swallow a pill

From pomar, from Latin palma (“hand”), influenced by Spanish tomar.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /toˈma/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /tuˈma/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /toˈmaɾ/

tomar (first-person singular present tomo, past participle tomat)

1. (transitive) to catch

• “tomar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tomar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “tomar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

tomar

1. Alternative spelling of tumar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tomar, of unknown origin; perhaps from Latin autumāre[1] or from Germanic.[2] Cognate with Spanish tomar.

• IPA^(key): /toˈmaɾ/

tomar (first-person singular present tomo, first-person singular preterite tomei, past participle tomado)

1. (transitive) to take

   Synonym: coller

2. (transitive) to grab

   Synonym: agarrar

3. (transitive) to seize, to capture

   Synonyms: conquistar, prender

4. (transitive) to drink

   Synonym: beber

5. (transitive) to take (food, a pill, etc)

   Synonym: comer

6. (transitive) to sunbathe

   Ven acó tomar o sol.

   Come here to sunbathe.

   Synonym: asollar

7. (transitive with por) to accept, to receive
8. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of tomar
9. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of tomar

• tomada

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

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /to.ˈmaɾ/

tomar

1. to take; to seize
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 26 (facsimile):

     e logo chegar..a alma tomar demões q̇ a leuarõ. mui toſte ſẽ tardar

     and soon devils arrived, seizing the soul and took it very quickly without delay

• Galician: tomar
• Portuguese: tomar

From Old Portuguese tomar, of unknown origin. Possibly derived from Latin autumāre (“to reckon; to affirm”)[1].

• Homophone: Tomar

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tomar (first-person singular present tomo, first-person singular preterite tomei, past participle tomado)

1. (transitive) to take (to get something into one’s possession or control)

   Fui ao banco tomar meu dinheiro.

   I went to the bank to get my money.

   1. (transitive, military) to take; to conquer (to seize control of a location)

      Os cruzados tomaram Jerusalém.

      The crusaders took Jerusalem.

   2. (transitive) to steal (to take something illegally)

      O ladrão tomou todo o meu dinheiro.

      The thief has taken all my money.

2. (transitive) to take; to receive (to be the victim of an interaction)

   Tomei um soco na cara.

   I took a punch to the face.

3. (transitive, applicable to some nouns) to put into practice

   tomar uma decisão

   to make a decision

   tomar medidas

   to take measures

4. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking por) to take for; to consider; to regard (to have a certain opinion about someone or something)

   Eu tomei a Maria por corrupta.

   I took Mary for a corrupt woman.

5. (transitive) to take into the body
   1. (transitive) to drink (to ingest a liquid)

      Eu tomei suco.

      I drank juice.

   2. (intransitive, by extension) to drink (to consume alcoholic beverages, especially habitually)

      Ele toma muito, durante os finais de semana.

      He drinks a lot on weekends.

   3. (transitive) to take (to use a medicine)

      Esqueci de tomar meus antidepressivos.

      I forgot to take my antidepressants.

6. (transitive) to take; to experience, undergo

   tomar um banho

   to take a shower

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tomar.

• (to take): pegar
• (to steal): roubar
• (to consider as): considerar (como)
• (to drink): beber
• (to drink alcohol): beber

• tomada

Uncertain. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *tumāre, aphaeresis of Latin autumāre (“to affirm (the right to own/possess something)”).

• IPA^(key): /toˈmaɾ/ [t̪oˈmaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: to‧mar

tomar (first-person singular present tomo, first-person singular preterite tomé, past participle tomado)

1. to take

   Los niños toman clases de inglés

   The children take English classes

   Me tomó mucho tiempo

   It took me a long time

   Tómalo con calma.

   Take it easy.

   • 2015 December, “Cine venezolano después del 6D”, in El Nacional‎:

     Dependerá de cada quien tomarlas en consideración o no.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. to drink, have (especially an alcoholic beverage)

   Tomo una sidra.

   I'll have a cider.

   Synonym: beber

3. to take (travel by means of)

   tomar el tren ― to take the train

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

From Ottoman Turkish طومار‎ (tomar).

tomar (definite accusative tomarı, plural tomarlar)

1. scroll
2. a great quantity of paper or money

• tomar in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu