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botar

Pronunciation: [buˈta]

“botar” is a Catalan word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to bounce, to bound
  2. to leap over

In Catalan

  1. Fer donar bots, moure amb la mà un objecte perquè doni contra una superfície i torni a la mà repetidament.
  2. Fer, la pilota o la bola, un o més moviments lliures a conseqüència d'un nombre igual d'impactes contra el camp de joc.
  3. vomitar, vessar.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French boter, from Old French bouter (“to strike, push”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bōtan (“to push, strike, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat”).

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