empunhar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From em- +‎ punho +‎ -ar. Compare Spanish empuñar, Catalan empunyar, Italian impugnare. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: em‧pu‧nhar === Verb === empunhar (first-person singular present empunho, first-person singular preterite empunhei, past participle empunhado) to hold [something] by its end with one’s clenched fist, like a sword ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “empunhar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “empunhar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026