zafar

• safar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese çafar (“to vanish”) (13th century), from Andalusian Arabic زَاح‎ ([a]záḥ), from Arabic أَزَاحَ‎ (ʾazāḥa, “to remove; to move to another place”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [za.ˈfaɾ], (western) [sa.ˈfaɾ]

zafar (first-person singular present zafo, first-person singular preterite zafei, past participle zafado)

1. (transitive) to let off, spare, free
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun or intransitive) to get out (to come out of a situation)
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to handle oneself

• zafada
• zafado
• zafo

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

From Andalusian Arabic زَاح‎ ([a]záḥ), from Arabic أَزَاحَ‎ (ʾazāḥa, “to remove; to move to another place”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θaˈfaɾ/ [θaˈfaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /saˈfaɾ/ [saˈfaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: za‧far

zafar (first-person singular present zafo, first-person singular preterite zafé, past participle zafado)

1. (transitive) to loosen; to untie

   Synonym: aflojar

2. (intransitive, Latin America, followed by "de") to get out of; to dodge (an obligation)
3. (reflexive) to come undone; to loosen up
4. (reflexive, followed by "de") to free oneself of; to get free of

• → Portuguese: safar

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

Borrowed from Arabic ظَفَر‎ (ẓafar).

zafar (plural zafarlar)

1. victory, triumph

• muzaffar