arrimar

Locally documented circa 1300.[1] Related to rima (“pile”), perhaps from Proto-Celtic *ad (“to”) + *rīmā (“number, count”).[2]

• IPA^(key): /ariˈmaɾ/

arrimar (first-person singular present arrimo, first-person singular preterite arrimei, past participle arrimado)

1. (transitive) to add
2. (transitive) to pile
3. (transitive) to bring close
4. (transitive) to support
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 88:

     pensarõ que mellores moradas poderiam aver que as que aviam, et buscarõ mays sobre esto, et tomarõ madeyros que arrymarõ aas pẽnas et aas grandes aruores et cobriã aqueles madeyros dos rramos das aruores et das eruas

     they though that they could get better dwellings than that that they had, so they searched about this, and they took logs that they supported against boulders and against large trees, and they covered them with branches and grasses

5. (transitive, colloquial) to beat
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun, colloquial) to live together
7. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to lean, to get near
8. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to search for support or protection

• achegar

• “arrymar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “arrimar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arrimar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arrimar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ar.riˈma/

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arrimar

1. (nautical) to stow, belay

From French arrimer or from a- +‎ rima +‎ -ar.

arrimar (first-person singular present arrimo, first-person singular preterite arrimei, past participle arrimado)

1. (transitive) to pile up

   Synonym: empilhar

2. (transitive) to support

   Synonym: sustentar

3. (colloquial, transitive) to beat

   Synonym: bater

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to lean

   Synonym: encostar

5. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with a) to join
6. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with em) to depend on

Unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): /ariˈmaɾ/ [a.riˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rri‧mar

arrimar (first-person singular present arrimo, first-person singular preterite arrimé, past participle arrimado)

1. (transitive) to draw near

   Synonyms: acercar, avecinar

2. (transitive) to hang up (give up doing an activity)
3. (transitive) to thwack; bash; hit
4. (reflexive) to live in sin

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