acañar

Perhaps a derivative of Latin canis (“dog”) (compare Occitan canha, "bitch").[1] Cognate with Portuguese acanhar.

• IPA^(key): /akaˈɲaɾ/

acañar (first-person singular present acaño, first-person singular preterite acañei, past participle acañado)

1. (transitive) to catch someone who is fleeing
2. (transitive, figurative) to oppress
   • 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:

     Todos temos, meu amigo,
     De esa mesma lan un sayo,
     E nunca vin esta terra
     Tan acañada de cartos:
     Aféllas que ja coidei
     Que tamen vos dera o frato
     De camiñar entre os mozos
     Que ja pra Cáis embarcaron

     all of we have, my friend,
     of that same wool a robe,
     and have never seen this country
     so deprived of money:
     In good faith I thought
     that you also had the attack
     of walking among the young ones
     that embarked for Cadiz

   Synonyms: asoballar, esmagar, oprimir

3. (transitive, figurative) to humiliate, embarrass

   Synonyms: asoballar, vexar

• acañado

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