desmayar

== Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French esmaier (“to perturb”), from Latin *magāre, from Frankish *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą. Cognate with English dismay although a false friend. Compare Portuguese desmaiar. Doublet and related to esmayao "to be hungry, famished", from esmayar. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: des‧ma‧yar === Verb === desmayar (first-person singular present desmayo, first-person singular preterite desmayé, past participle desmayado) (transitive) to cause a person to faint (intransitive, figurative) to dishearten (pronominal) to faint (lose consciousness) ==== Usage notes ==== Desmayar is a false friend and does not mean dismay. Spanish equivalents are shown in the "Translations" section of the English entry dismay. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== (obsolete) esmayar ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “desmayar”, 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