escanyar

== Catalan == === Etymology === From es- +‎ canya (“reed”) +‎ -ar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kəˈɲa] IPA(key): (Valencia) [es.kaˈɲaɾ] === Verb === escanyar (first-person singular present escanyo, first-person singular preterite escanyí, past participle escanyat) (transitive) to choke, to strangle (intransitive, pronominal) to choke (figurative, transitive) to loan money at exorbitant rates ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “escanyar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. “escanyar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “escanyar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007