echar

Borrowed from Spanish echar, from Late Latin iectāre, from Latin iactāre. Doublet of xeitar, which represents the native form in western Asturian.

• IPA^(key): /eˈt͡ʃaɾ/, [eˈt͡ɕaɾ]
• Hyphenation: e‧char

echar (first-person singular indicative present echo, past participle echáu)

1. to throw
2. to throw out, throw away
3. to emit
4. to get, fetch
5. to lean
6. to put
7. to take (time)
8. to throw up, raise
9. to pour

echar (Latin spelling)

1. to throw
2. to put to bed

• echarse

Inherited from Late Latin iectāre, from Latin iactāre. Doublet of the borrowing jactar. Cognate with Galician xeitar and, more distantly, English jet and jut.

• IPA^(key): /eˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [eˈt͡ʃaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧char

echar (first-person singular present echo, first-person singular preterite eché, past participle echado)

1. (transitive) to throw, toss, cast, jettison (to release an object from one's grasp so that it moves through the air)

   Synonym: tirar

2. (transitive) to pour (to cause to flow in a stream from a container)
3. (transitive) to put in, add
4. (transitive) to let out
5. (transitive) to discharge
6. (transitive) to dump
7. (transitive) to emit, give off, send out
8. (transitive) to kick out, expel, throw out, to send packing (to forcibly remove)
9. (transitive) to expel (to remove from membership)
10. (transitive) to fire, dismiss (to terminate employment)
11. (transitive) to play (to participate in a sport)

    Echamos un partido.

    We're playing a match.

12. (transitive) to sprout (to cause to grow from a seed)
13. (transitive) to take, have (a look at)
14. (transitive) to mail, post (to send through the mail/post)
15. (transitive) to give, bestow (a blessing); to put (a curse) on
16. (transitive) to turn (a key); to slide (a bolt)
17. (intransitive) to start off, begin
18. (reflexive) to throw oneself
19. (reflexive) to lie down (to assume a reclining position)
20. (reflexive) to put on
21. (reflexive) to begin
22. (reflexive, of birds) to sit on eggs
23. (reflexive) to give in, to yield

• → Tagalog: itsa

• “echar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014