Glossary of Catalan Words and Phrases in Poetry
Glossary of Catalan Words and Phrases
Words from A to Z
Atupen: give shots.
Aimia: Women loved, respectively man who has love affairs.
Albir: watching from afar.
Anointed: crown.
Anxiety: Agitation caused by poor physical or moral, of passion, desire, etc..
Aspire: Amount equivalent to 30 skeins of yarn of 500 gray each.
Auba: Alba
Avior: Ascendancy, ancient.
Azure: blue represented graphically by a horizontal line.
Batell: Crossroads of scaffolding and ships, all imitating the French “bateau”.
Behave: behave (with correction).
Bird: bird.
Blessed: lucky.
Brava: brave the danger in the fight.
Brand: lose a plant or plant organ, the turgidity due to lack of water or other physiological causes.
Buds: flowers before opening.
Buzz: Producing a sound in air travel at high speed.
Cabbage: bolic wire.
Car: since.
Carelessly: to negligence, careless.
Carena: Divide both sides of a mountain or mountain range.
Choral Society: Association members of a society of people of choral
Clear: clear.
Cloqueret:
Clucs: closed.
Comellar: comma hill.
Consirosa: Thinker, absorbed in thought, a concern.
Corranda: Dance that is danced by couples singing, popular in Catalonia.
Corsair: Person who makes the hearts
Coster: Post sawn end of a trunk, which presents a face loop segment
Deep: a large scale.
Deliberations: Fix consideration with excessive subtlety.
Detachment: when something is off.
Descloses: Open (that was closed).
Disheartened: lose courage or spirit.
Dismissive: showing contempt.
Distaff: Instrument for spinning.
Doublet: garment covering the body to the waist, tight body with sleeves.
Dread: Feeling of depression in the presence of someone who seeks something that makes you think about the potential hazards against which he feels helpless.
Drunk: the powers that now disturbed by the effects of wine or of any vision that has captivated.
Dying: dying, death.
Encativam: captivated.
Endoles: Fill flight
Esfulla: esfullar Act, remove the leaves.
Fierceness: fear.
Foll: crazy.
Folger: Festive word.
Fontanella: small font.
Formentor: small peninsula of the island of Mallorca in the town of Pollensa.
Fremen: strong shaking.
Frisament: nervousness.
Fruesc: Mallorca verbal form of the verb enjoy (enjoy).
Fruitful: Prolific, fertile, producing fruit, especially abundant
Gepic: hunchback.
Giravolt: Vuelta a full body on himself when he is high.
Grocer: Owner of a pharmacy (sold products overseas colonies, sugar, and spices).
Howling: Cry of certain wild animals.
Immutar: Hearing a commotion of the mind that manifests itself in the position.
Kids: A set of boys or girls.
Llagut: Catalan scaffolding not too big, or intended for fishing traffic.
Lloure roar: call to freedom.
Location: invade affection or idea.
Look at: look.
Lucerne (alfalfa): perennial herb often grown for forage
Lurks: watches, watches.
Madrèpora: Polyp arborescent
Malaria: About marshes and wetlands
Mark: lean forward.
Mata: Plant more or less woody and low.
Mutilated: he has lost some important member of his body.
Mutters: metaphorically applied to the wind, refers to ruminants chew food for a second time.
Needle saquera: Needle sewing bags.
Noise: Noise, noise.
Oak: Perennial shrub of the family fagàcies.
Oratges: Vent Terral / time
Paltry: poor or unfortunate.
Pangs: torment caused by anxiety.
Park: Goddess who spun and cut the thread of each man.
Paths: one for each of two or more persons or things.
Pending: Pending.
Peratge: landscape
Phosphorescent: shines with the darkness.
Poison: poison.
Rai: aquatic vehicle.
Regret: Sadness for what is or is left to do, or what was done or failed to do.
Remorosa: making a confused noise.
Rictus: Opening of the mouth move and position
Rock: rock Fat stony nature.
Rous: Moisture in the atmosphere condensed into droplets on the surface of the bodies cold, especially at night (dew).
Saguntine: Inhabitants of Sagunto. Sagunto, a town of Valencia.
Salvatgina: Beast wild deer, chamois, wild boar …
Scarlet Sky: Sky bright red.
Scales: vertical stem, the escalemera fixed the hole in the bow of which is armed by estrop rowing.
Seagulls: a large gull
Silt: clay.
Sirga: Rope with which advances a boat pulling it from the shore
Speaker: West.
Spread: spread widely.
Stormy: Applies to intense noise that can stop a person deaf.
Task: solicitation, proposal to do something.
Tedi: nuisance caused by the continuation or repetition of something that matters.
Tenderol: small awning.
Testa: none.
Thalamus: Table cross craft children.
Trone: land.
Tuc: Mountain Top
Twill: Tie course arranged obliquely square.
Unscrew: Develop, deploy what was screwed
Vetusta gown: (old clothes)
Washer: moving driven to and fro through the air.
Weather: wind.
Winch: Machine to move or lift heavy weights, consisting of a vertical shift drum on which a cable wound
Yearned: prone to miss it.
Yet: Although
Zel: Useful lives and deep
Zenit: Peak
unknown: (unknown)
slate: (blackboard)
Additional Notes
Some words have multiple meanings or nuances depending on the context. This glossary provides a general understanding of the terms as used in poetry.
For a more comprehensive understanding of the Catalan language, please refer to a Catalan dictionary or language learning resources.