chamar

• chamaar, choomar, chumar

Borrowed from Hindi चमार (camār).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃəˈmɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

chamar (plural chamars)

1. A member of a tribe who works in leather and agriculture; a tanner or leather-worker.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 419:

     It is not strictly a native patent, though chamars of the skin and hide castes can, if irritated, despatch a Sending which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly kills him.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chamar, from Latin clāmāre (“to cry out”). Compare Portuguese chamar and Spanish llamar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈmaɾ/

chamar (first-person singular present chamo, first-person singular preterite chamei, past participle chamado)

1. to call; to refer to (by name)

   Chámome Alejandro e nacín en 1953 ― "I am called Alejandro and was born in 1953"

2. (transitive) to call, summon

   Quen chama? ― "Who's calling?"

3. (intransitive) to call, summon [with por ‘someone’]
   • 2016, Malandrómeda, Chegar e encher [song]:

     Cando voltei, cheguei e enchín,
     choran os problemas e chaman por min;
     non sei moi ben se hoxe vou ser quen
     de pasar de lado como se non fora comigo

     When I came back, and pulled it off at the first attempt [veni, vidi, vici]
     the troubles cry and call me;
     I'm not sure if today I'll be capable
     of passing by as if that's not me

   Chama por ela ― "Call her"

4. to invoke

   Synonym: invocar

5. (transitive) to goad; to steer, guide (the cattle, a yoke)

   Synonym: afalar

• rechamar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “chamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “chamar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chamar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chamar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chamar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin clāmāre (“to cry out”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ˈmaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

chamar

1. to call; to refer to (by name)
2. to call, to name, to denominate
3. (pronominal) to be called (to have a specific name)

• chamado

• Galician: chamar
• Portuguese: chamar (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "chamar"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chamar, from Latin clamāre (“to cry out”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”). Doublet of clamar, a learned borrowing. Cognate with Galician chamar, Catalan clamar, Italian chiamare and Spanish llamar.

• (Brazil Nordestino) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ.ˈma(h)/, /ʃɐ̃.ˈma(h)/

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• Hyphenation: cha‧mar

chamar (first-person singular present chamo, first-person singular preterite chamei, past participle chamado)

1. (transitive) to call; to summon (to ask someone to come)

   Synonyms: clamar, invocar, convocar

   Há uma partida amanhã, chamem os seus/vossos amigos.

   There is a match tomorrow, call your friends.

2. (transitive) to call, to name (to use as the name of) [with a ‘someone/something’, along with direct object or de ‘(as) something’; or with direct object ‘someone/something’ and de (+ object or adjective) ‘(as) something’]

   Os botânicos chamam àquele tipo de árvore (de) gimnosperma.

   Botanists call that type of tree a gymnosperm.

   chamar alguém de verdadeiro amigo ― to call someone a true friend

   • Deus chamou à luz dia, e às trevas chamou noite.

     God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.

3. (transitive, derogatory) to call, to label [with a ‘someone/something’, along with direct object or de ‘(as) something negative’; or with direct object ‘someone/something’ and de (+ object or adjective) ‘(as) something negative’]

   Eles o chamaram de idiota, de mentiroso.

   They called him an idiot, a liar.

   Chamaram-me feio na escola.

   They called me ugly at school.

4. (pronominal, transitive) to be called (to have a specific name)

   Synonyms: nomear, denominar, designar

   Olá, chamo-me Pedro.

   Hi, I’m called Peter.

   • 2012, Luís Fernando Veríssimo, “O conselheiro”, in Diálogos Impossíveis, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Objetiva, →ISBN, page 13:

     João riu muito quando a Heleninha contou que tinha um ursinho de estimação, sem o qual não saberia viver, e que ele se chamava Tedi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcama
• Macanese: chomâ

• “chamar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “chamar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “chamar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026