Meaning of cheirar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to smell (to perceive a smell with the nose)
   transitive
2. to sniff
   transitive
3. to smell (to have a particular smell)
   intransitive
4. to stink, to smell
   intransitive
5. to tire, bore, annoy
   figuratively, intransitive
6. to sniff around, snoop
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Cheiro a comida?”

Am I smelling food?

“Cheira a comida.”

It smells like food.

“Esta roupa cheira. A que cheira esta roupa? A fume?”

These clothes have a smell. What smell do these clothes have? Smoke?

“Et teu yrmão Fernã Gonçaluez, cõna muy grã coyta que ouue, sey(nd)o do paaço fugindo et saltou en hũu curral que nõ era muy limpo; et, quando el et seus panos ende seyrõ nõ cheyrauã a musgo”

And your brother Fernán González, with the great trouble he had, getting out of the palace and fleeing he jumped into a corral that was not very clean; and, when he finally got out of it, his clothes didn't smell of musk

“Cheiras.”

You stink.

“As visitas e o pescado, ós dous días cheiran.”

Visitors and fish, both "stink" the second day.

“Que andas a cheirar no meu cuarto?”

What are you doing in my room?

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