afalagar

• falagar
• aḥalagar (Eastern Asturias)
• azalagar (Llanes)

afalagar (first-person singular indicative present afalago, past participle afalagáu)

1. to caress

   Synonyms: acariñar, acoricar, reblincar

2. to flatter

   Synonyms: allerar, combayar

From Arabic خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa, “to shape, polish, perfume”). .

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.fə.ləˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.fa.laˈɣaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

afalagar (first-person singular present afalago, first-person singular preterite afalaguí, past participle afalagat)

1. (transitive) to flatter

• “afalagar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “afalagar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “afalagar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “afalagar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

afalagar

1. to flatter