estafar

== Catalan == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish estafar, from Italian staffare. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.təˈfa] IPA(key): (Valencia) [es.taˈfaɾ] Rhymes: -a(ɾ) === Verb === estafar (first-person singular present estafo, first-person singular preterite estafí, past participle estafat) to scam, swindle ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “estafar”, 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 “estafar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. “estafar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: es‧ta‧far === Verb === estafar (first-person singular present estafo, first-person singular preterite estafei, past participle estafado) to overload with work, to tire, to weary, to exhaust to beat up, to physically attack to spendthrift, to waste money ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “estafar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “estafar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian staffare (“to lose one's stirrup[s]”), comparing the victim of a fraud to a rider. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /estaˈfaɾ/ [es.t̪aˈfaɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: es‧ta‧far === Verb === estafar (first-person singular present estafo, first-person singular preterite estafé, past participle estafado) (transitive) to swindle, to con Synonyms: engañar, timar (transitive) to rip off, to cheat ==== Usage notes ==== The difference between estafar and timar and their corresponding derivatives is that estafar typically has to do with graver offense in conning and swindling than timar does. Estafar is more of an action that you could be potentially arrested for. Keep in mind as always that this can vary regionally, and in some places the two terms may be entirely synonymous. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: estafar === References === === Further reading === “estafar”, 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