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From chío + -ar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈaɾ/

chiar (first-person singular present chío, first-person singular preterite chiei, past participle chiado)
chiar (first-person singular present chio, first-person singular preterite chiei, past participle chiado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to tweet
2. (figurative) to complain

   Synonyms: ladrar, rosmar

3. to squeak, to screech

   Synonyms: rechiar, renxer

4. to oink, to grunt

   Synonyms: cuiñar, cuincar, gruñir

• chío

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “chiar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “chiar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chiar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chiar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chiar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /çiəɾˠ/

chiar

1. lenited form of ciar

chiar

1. (Early Scots) alternative form of chayere

From chio + -ar.

• Hyphenation: chi‧ar

chiar (first-person singular present chio, first-person singular preterite chiei, past participle chiado)

1. (intransitive) to squeak, to squeal, to screech
2. (intransitive) to sizzle, to hiss
3. (intransitive) to complain, to nag
4. (Brazil) to pronounce /s/ at the end of a syllable as a [ʃ] (i.e. "sh" sound) rather than a [s] (as happens in the Rio de Janeiro accent)

• “chiar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “chiar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin clārus, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clar, which was a borrowing. Used almost always as an adverb in modern speech (compare Latin pure, adverb form of purus). The old adjective form is only found in old texts and in some expressions such as "din chiar senin" or "apă chioară" ("clear or pure water"), where it was influenced phonetically by the unrelated word chior. Compare also Istro-Romanian cľår.

• IPA^(key): /kjar/

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chiar

1. even

   chiar dacă ― even if

2. just

   chiar acum ― just now

   chiar așa ― just like that, just such

chiar m or n (feminine singular chiară, masculine plural chiari, feminine/neuter plural chiare)

1. (obsolete) clear

• clar

• IPA^(key): /çʰiaɾ/

chiar

1. lenited form of ciar