Meaning of prestar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to loan, to lend
   transitive
2. to render, provide, offer (a service, help etc.)
   transitive
3. to pay (attention, respect etc.)
   transitive
4. to be useful, suitable, or enjoyable
   intransitive
5. to be suitable, or enjoyable; to feel good
   pronominal

Equivalents

Examples

“1362, María del Carmen Sánchez Carrera (ed.), El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié de la Maza, page 359”

you should not sell, or pawn, or contract, or cede, or lend for a time, or at times, the aforementioned house

“soe prestar ao Cauallo que ten a cabeça fria pazer a miude eruas peqenas et tenras porque en mergendo a cabeça et tirando as eruas con os dentes, deçen da cabeça a moor parte dos homores porllos nares para fora”

it is usually useful, for the horse that have its head cold, to graze frequently tender and young grasses, because as it lowers its head and plucks the grasses with its teeth most of the fluids flow out through the nostrils

“Como che me presta o caldo con este frío!”

I really enjoy the hot soup with this cold weather!

“Non me dás un pouco? Pois que che preste!”

You won't give me a bit? Then, enjoy yourself!

“Et deulle tã grã ferida cõ hũa lança que tragía que a loriga nõ lle prestou nada, et passou a lança perlo uẽtre del, et logo as tripas lle caerõ sóbrelo arçón da sela”

And he hit him such a blow with a spear he brought that the breastplate didn't benefit him at all, and the spear passed through his belly, and immediately his intestines fell over the saddlebow

“Albino: Deyjame probar si quera vnha gota a min tamen. Marta: Pois tendela vara e besta quen bos quita que bebàs? Albino: Ay Iasus como me presta.”

Albino: "Let me taste al least a drop for myself" Marta: "You have rod and horse, who's forbidding you of drinking?" Albino: "Oh, Jesus, it feels good!"

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