menear

• manear

Inherited from Old Spanish menear.

menear (Hebrew spelling מיניאר)^[1]

1. (ambitransitive) to move (get in motion or put something in motion)
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[1], page 155:

     Ariví al espital de Kfar Saba, i me echaron ayá sin poderme menear.

     I arrived at the Kfar Saba hospital, and they laid me down there without me being able to move myself.

2. (ambitransitive) to shake (wiggle)
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[2], page 119:

     Alberto kontinuó a menear la kavesa en sinyo de dezaprovasión, sospirando: "A, komo se puede ser ansí!…"

     Albert kept shaking his head as a sign of disapproval, sighing, ‘Ugh, how can it be like this…!’

3. (ambitransitive) to stir (something); mix (something) around

Variation of menar, from Latin mināre (“to drive”).

menear

1. to shake (wiggle)

• Ladino: manear, menear, מיניאר, מאניאר
• Spanish: menear

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “menear”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 335

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• Hyphenation: me‧ne‧ar

menear (first-person singular present meneio, first-person singular preterite meneei, past participle meneado)

1. (transitive) to wiggle, wag, shake
2. (Rio Grande do Sul) to handle or to manage with the hands

   Synonym: manejar

3. (Rio Grande do Sul) to strike or to hit with the hands

   Synonym: golpear

• “menear”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “menear”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “menear” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “menear”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “menear”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “menear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From manear (“(dated) to drive”), with contamination from menar (“to drive livestock”).

• IPA^(key): /meneˈaɾ/ [me.neˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: me‧ne‧ar

menear (first-person singular present meneo, first-person singular preterite meneé, past participle meneado)

1. (transitive) to wiggle, to wag, to shake

   Synonyms: rabear, zarandear

2. (transitive) to hobble, to hopple (a horse)
3. (reflexive) to sway, to shake

• “menear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10