esfollar

esfollar

1. to flay

• desfollar

Attested from the 15th century. From Latin exfoliare, or either from es- (“ex-”) +‎ folla (“leaf”). Compare Spanish deshojar.

• IPA^(key): /esfoˈʎaɾ/, /eɾfoˈʎaɾ/

esfollar (first-person singular present esfollo, first-person singular preterite esfollei, past participle esfollado)

1. to defoliate, exfoliate (to remove the leaves from a plant)
   1. to remove the leaves that wrap the ears of maize

      Synonyms: deluvar, esburgar, escarochar

   2. to remove those leaves of a vine which are hindering the ripening of the grapes

• folla

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

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esfollar (first-person singular present esfollo, first-person singular preterite esfollé, past participle esfollado)

1. (Asturias) to flay

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