sobar

• sovar (reintegrationist)

Unknown.[1] Cognate with Portuguese sovar and Spanish sobar. Maybe related with "sopire".

• IPA^(key): [soˈβaɾ]

sobar (first-person singular present sobo, first-person singular preterite sobei, past participle sobado)

1. to press; to knead

   Synonym: premer

2. to fall sleep; to be sleepy
3. to rub; to touch; to grope
4. (figurative) to beat up
   • 1877, O Tio Marcos da Portela, 39, p. 155:

     O outro día pola mañá cedo, o rapaz achegouse onda min qu'inda estaba no leito, e dixome: «meu pai; voulle collendo unha xenreira ós que viven na ciudá, que si pillo a un solo nun carreiro, sobolle as costelas canto pódea»

     The other day, early in the morning, my child came to me, I was still in bed, and told me: «my father; I'm growing such a grudge against the ones living in the city that if I find one alone at a road, I'll knead his ribs as much as I can»

5. to incite, stir up

   Synonyms: apurrar, encirrar, retar

• soba

• “sobar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sobar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sobar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From sobă +‎ -ar.

sobar m (plural sobari)

1. stovemaker

sȍbār m (Cyrillic spelling со̏ба̄р)

1. valet (hotel employee)

• IPA^(key): /soˈbaɾ/ [soˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: so‧bar

sobar (first-person singular present sobo, first-person singular preterite sobé, past participle sobado)

1. to knead

   Synonyms: amasar, heñir

2. to hit or strike punishingly
3. to fondle; feel up; grope
4. (colloquial) to snooze; sleep
5. (Mexico) to massage (someone's body or a part of a body)

• “sobar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014