podar

Borrowed from Hindi पोद्दार (poddār).

podar (plural podars)

1. (India, obsolete) A cash-keeper, especially an officer attached to a treasury, responsible for weighing money and bullion and appraising the value of coins.

• poddar
• podder

From Latin putāre (“clean, cleanse”).

podar (first-person singular indicative present podo, past participle podáu)

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• “podar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “podar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Catalan podar, from Latin putāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [puˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [poˈða]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [poˈðaɾ]

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podar (first-person singular present podo, first-person singular preterite podí, past participle podat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

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• poda

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “podar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “podar”, 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

From Old Galician-Portuguese podar, from Latin putāre (“clean, cleanse”).

• IPA^(key): [poˈðaɾ]

podar (first-person singular present podo, first-person singular preterite podei, past participle podado)

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   • 1303, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 150:

     Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar

     You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding

• podón

• “podar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “podar”, 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), “podar”, 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), “podar”, 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), “podar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “podar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “podar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan podar, from Latin putāre (“clean, cleanse”).

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podar

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Deverbal from podarować.

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Eastern Kraków) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.dar]

podar m inan

1. (Eastern Kraków, Topola, Pińczów County) synonym of urodzaj

   jak do podaru ― properly for a harvest

• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “podar”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 233

From Old Galician-Portuguese podar, from Latin putāre (“to clean, to cleanse”).

• Hyphenation: po‧dar

podar (first-person singular present podo, first-person singular preterite podei, past participle podado)

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

From pod +‎ -ar.

podar m (plural podari)

1. drawbridge operator
2. pontooner

Inherited from Old Spanish podar, from Latin putāre (“clean, cleanse”).

• IPA^(key): /poˈdaɾ/ [poˈð̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: po‧dar

podar (first-person singular present podo, first-person singular preterite podé, past participle podado)

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• “podar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• pardo, podrá, prado