Meaning of fiar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to guarantee
2. to spin (make yarn)
3. to sell on credit, give credit
4. to string together, put together (words or ideas)
5. to entrust
6. to confide

Equivalents

Examples

“Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.”

lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly

CEFR level