Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Caló chamullar (“to talk”)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cha‧mu‧yar
Verb
[edit]chamuyar (first-person singular present chamuyo, first-person singular preterite chamuyé, past participle chamuyado)
- (Rioplatense, Peru, Bolivia, colloquial) to chat up, sweet-talk
- (Rioplatense, Bolivia, colloquial) to whisper among oneselves
- (Rioplatense, colloquial) to fabricate a factual-sounding claim
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of chamuyar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “chamuyar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- “chamuyar”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010