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escamar

Pronunciation: [əs.kəˈma]

“escamar” is a Catalan word. Its 4 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to flake (to break or chip off in a flake)
  2. to scale (to remove the scales of)
  3. to scold
  4. only used in s'... escamar, syntactic variant of escamar-se, infinitive of escamar-se (“to escape; to run around”)

In Catalan

  1. Fer escames treballant una superfície.
  2. escatar
  3. escamnar
  4. fugir
  5. caminar amunt i avall feinejant

Etymology

From escama (“scale; flake”) + -ar.

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