mazar

From maza (“mace”). Compare Portuguese maçar and Spanish mazar.

• IPA^(key): /maˈθaɾ/, (western) /maˈsaɾ/

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macei, past participle mazado)

1. (transitive) to pound, to hammer (to strike repeatedly)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be pounded before cooking.

2. (transitive) to tenderize (meat)

   O polbo hai que mazalo antes de cociñalo. ― Octopus must be tenderized before cooking.

3. (transitive) to thresh (flax)
   • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 219:

     Çinco feyxes de liño, un maçado e quatro por maçar

     five flax bundles: one threshed and four pending thresing

4. (transitive) to churn

   Mazando o leite obtemos a manteiga. ― By churning milk we obtain butter.

   Synonym: petar

5. (transitive) to bruise

   Synonym: esmolicar

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bruise (to gain bruises; to get bruised)

   A froita mazouse no transporte. ― The fruit bruised during the transportation.

7. (intransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) to bang (to engage in sexual intercourse)

   Cacháronos mazando nos servizos! ― They found them banging in the bathroom!

• mazado
• mazadura

• maza

• “maça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mazar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mazar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mazar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• mazzar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)
• mazzer (Puter)

Compare Italian ammazzare, Friulian maçâ, Venetian masar, Istriot masà, Occitan massar, cf. also Spanish mazar.

mazar

1. (Sutsilvan) to kill

From maza. Compare Portuguese maçar; cf. also Occitan massar, Italian ammazzare.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /maˈθaɾ/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /maˈsaɾ/

mazar (first-person singular present mazo, first-person singular preterite macé, past participle mazado)

1. to tenderize (meat)
2. to churn

• Rule: z becomes a c before e.