mirar

Inherited from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).

mirar

1. (transitive) to watch
2. (mirar de) to try
3. (transitive) to search

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mirar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• amirar

Inherited from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).

mirar (first-person singular indicative present miro, past participle miráu)

1. to look (to try to see)
2. (mirar por) to take care, watch

mirar m (plural mirares)

1. look, gaze

Inherited from Old Catalan mirar, from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).

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mirar (first-person singular present miro, first-person singular preterite mirí, past participle mirat)

1. to look, to look at, to watch
2. (mirar de) to try

• a cavall regalat, no li miris el dentat
• mira f
• mirada f

• “mirar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mirar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mirar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mirar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mirar, from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈɾaɾ/

mirar (first-person singular present miro, first-person singular preterite mirei, past participle mirado)

1. to look

   Synonyms: ollar, ver

2. to watch, to observe

   Synonym: ollar

3. (intransitive) to look [with para ‘at’]

   Mira pra min! ― Look at me!

4. (regional, western) to see

   Synonym: ver

   Non che mirín na feira! ― I didn't see you at the fair!

5. (intransitive) to try [with de]

   Synonyms: intentar, tentar

6. (intransitive) to look after; to watch out [with por ‘for’]

   Synonym: coidar

   Mira polos cativos! ― Look after the kids!

• admirar
• mirada
• miradoiro
• miramento
• miraxe

mirar m (plural mirares)

1. gaze, stare, way of looking

   Synonyms: mirada, ollar

   • 1895, Heraclio Pérez Placer, Contos da Terriña:

     Calquer pensara que un meigallo se lle meteu no corpo, ó ver como cambeou de súpeto. Esborrouse da súa boca a sonrisa pracenteira, fuxiu dos ollos o mirar churruscandeiro, velado agora por humedeceres de bágoas

     Anyone would think that a spell has entered her body, seeing how she changed all of the sudden: the pleasant smile fade from her mouth and the lively gaze fled from her eyes, clouded now by the wetness of the tears

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mirar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mirar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mirar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “mirar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mirar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “mirar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mirar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Spanish mirar, from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”). Compare Spanish mirar, Portuguese mirar (“to aim”), dated French mirer (“stare”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈrar/

mirar (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מיראר)

1. (transitive) to look at; to watch
   • 1979, Kamelia Shahar, “La verdadera felisidad”, in Aki Yerushalayim, number 1:

     Eliau Anavi ke lo estava mirando d'enfrente se aserko de el i le disho: Dime ombre, deke estas de negra umor ?

     The prophet Elijah, who was watching him from across, approached him and said: Tell me, man, why are you in a bad mood?

2. (intransitive) to look

mirar ?

1. carcass

mirar m

1. indefinite plural of mir

• rimar

Inherited from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

mirar

1. to look
2. to watch, to observe

• miradoiro

• Galician: mirar
• Portuguese: mirar

• Universo Cantigas - "mirar"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mirar, from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”).

• Hyphenation: mi‧rar

mirar (first-person singular present miro, first-person singular preterite mirei, past participle mirado)

1. (poetic) to see; to observe

   Synonyms: contemplar, enxergar, espreitar, observar, olhar, ver

2. to sight; to aim (to point a weapon towards the target)

   Synonym: apontar

Inherited from Old Spanish mirar, from Latin mīrārī (“marvel at”). Compare Ladino mirar (“look at”), Portuguese mirar (“see, aim”), dated French mirer (“stare”).

• IPA^(key): /miˈɾaɾ/ [miˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mi‧rar

mirar (first-person singular present miro, first-person singular preterite miré, past participle mirado)

1. (transitive) to look at (to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes)
2. (transitive) to watch (to look at, view, or observe for a period of time)

   Estábamos mirando la televisión.

   We were watching TV.

3. (transitive) to watch (to mind, attend, or guard)
4. (transitive) to consider, think over (to think about seriously)
5. (transitive, usually in the imperative) used for emphasis; look

   Synonym: he aquí

   ¡Mira qué linda!

   How pretty!

   ¡Mirad! Este es el hombre quien hurta entre vosotros, a él se le debe atribuir esto.

   Behold! This is the man who is stealing amongst you all, to him this must be attributed.

   ¡Mirad! Allí está el que os engañó, ¡agarradlo todos vosotros!

   Look! There is the one who deceived you all, all of you, get him!

6. (transitive) to seek, look for (to try to find)
7. (intransitive) to look (to try to see something, to pay attention with one’s eyes)
8. (intransitive, of a structure) to face, overlook (to be oriented towards a certain direction or thing)
9. (reflexive) to look at oneself

• “mirar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28