Italian

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Etymology

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Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Latin baubor, Dalmatian bajur and French aboyer.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ab.baˈja.re/
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  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ab‧ba‧ià‧re

Verb

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abbaiàre (first-person singular present abbàio, first-person singular past historic abbaiài, past participle abbaiàto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

  1. to bark (of dogs and foxes)
    Il cane abbaiava al fattorino della pizza.The dog was barking at the pizza delivery guy.
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 28–32; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Qual è quel cane ch’abbaiando agogna,
      e si racqueta poi che ’l pasto morde,
      ché solo a divorarlo intende e pugna,
      cotai si fecer quelle facce lorde
      de lo demonio Cerbero []
      Such as that dog is, who by barking craves, and quiet grows soon as his food he gnaws, for to devour it he but thinks and struggles, the like became those muzzles filth-begrimed of Cerberus the demon
  2. (by extension, figurative) to yell, to shout
    • 1551, Benedetto Varchi, transl., Della consolazione della filosofia [The Consolation of Philosophy], translation of De consolatione philosophiae by Boethius, published 1832, page 24:
      Poscia che io [] ebbi più tosto abbajato che detto queste cose, ella con piacevole viso, e niente per li miei lamenti alteratasi, disse: []
      After I had barked, rather than said, this, she, with a serene face, not at all upset at my lamentations, said: []

Conjugation

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Noun

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abbaiare m (uncountable)

  1. barking
    Synonyms: abbaiamento, abbaio
    Si sentì un forte abbaiare di cani.A loud barking of dogs was heard.

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Further reading

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  • abbaiare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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