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segar (plural segars)

1. Obsolete form of cigar.
   • c. 1867 in advertisement by American lithographer Frederick Heppenheimer of F. Heppenheimer & Co. (1867):
     The first nines segars manufactured from the best Vuelta Abajo tobacco by A.H.A.

• agers, Sarge, Argeș, Geras, SEGRA, Regas, sager, rages, gaser, GRASE, Sager, Agers, gears, garse, sarge, regas

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA(key): /seˈɡa(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: se‧gar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

Conjugation of segar (first conjugation)

• “segar”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA(key): /seˈɡaɾ/ [seˈɡaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧gar

segar

1. to reap

Conjugation of segar

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈɣa]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [seˈɣaɾ]
• Homophone: cegar

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguí, past participle segat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (transitive) to reap, to mow
   Synonym: dallar
2. (transitive) to chafe
3. (transitive, figurative) to mow down
4. (transitive, figurative) to exhaust (limbs)
   • 1956, Josep-Sebastià Pons, Llibre de les set sivelles:
     Maleït sigui el castell amb tantes escales i tants graons de pedra dura que m'han segat les cames.
     Damn the castle with so many stairways and so many hard stone steps which have worn out my legs.

• séc

• sega

• segabosses

• segada

• segador

• “segar”, 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

• “segar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

• “segar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “segar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Old Galician-Portuguese segar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin secāre (“to cut”).

• IPA(key): /seˈɡaɾ/ [s̺eˈɣ̞ɑɾ]

• IPA(key): (standard) /seˈɡaɾ/ [s̺eˈɣ̞ɑɾ]

• IPA(key): (gheada) /seˈħaɾ/ [s̺eˈħɑɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguei, past participle segado)

1. to scythe; to reap, harvest

Conjugation of segar (g-gu alternation)

| | Singular | Plural | | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | First-person(eu) | Second-person(ti / tu) | Third-person(ele / ela / você) | First-person(nós) | Second-person(vós) | Third-person(eles / elas / vocês) | | | Infinitive | | | | | | | | Impersonal | segar | | | | | | | Personal | segar | segares | segar | segarmos | segardes | segarem | | Gerund | | | | | | | | | segando | | | | | | | | Past participle | | | | | | | | Masculine | segado | segados | | | | | | Feminine | segada | segadas | | | | | | Indicative | | | | | | | | Present | sego | segas | sega | segamos | segades, segais | segam | | Imperfect | segava | segavas | segava | segávamos | segávades, segáveis, _segávais_1 | segavam | | Preterite | seguei | segaste, _segache_1 | segou | segamos | segastes | segárom, segaram | | Pluperfect | segara | segaras | segara | segáramos | segárades, segáreis, _segárais_1 | segaram | | Future | segarei | segarás | segará | segaremos | segaredes, segareis | segarám, segarão | | Conditional | segaria | segarias | segaria | segaríamos | segaríades, segaríeis, segaríais1 | segariam | | Subjunctive | | | | | | | | Present | segue | segues | segue | seguemos | seguedes, segueis | seguem | | Imperfect | segasse | segasses | segasse | segássemos | segássedes, segásseis | segassem | | Future | segar | segares | segar | segarmos | segardes | segarem | | Imperative | | | | | | | | Affirmative | | sega | segue | seguemos | segade, segai | seguem | | Negative (nom) | nom segues | nom segue | nom seguemos | nom seguedes, nom segueis | nom seguem | |

• sega
• segador
• “segar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “segar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “segar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “segar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “segar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “segar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Malay سݢر (segar), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sə(ŋ)gər (“feel fit, healthy”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /səˈɡar/ [səˈɡar]
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: se‧gar

segar (comparative lebih segar, superlative paling segar)

1. healthy
2. fresh

• disegarkan

• kesegaran

• menyegarkan

• penyegar

• penyegaran

• sesegar

• tersegar

• “segar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Inherited from Old Spanish segar, from Latin secāre.

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

• Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac (1995), Diccionario del judeoespañol de los sefardíes del norte de Marruecos: Jaquetía tradicional y moderna, Caracas: Centro de Estudios Sefardíes de Caracas, →ISBN, page 645

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sə(ŋ)gər (“feel fit, healthy”). Cognate with Old Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese seger

• (Standard Southern Peninsula) IPA(key): /səˈɡa(r)/ [səˈɡa(r)]
  • Rhymes: -əɡar, -əɡa, -ɡar, -ɡa, -ar, -a
• (Standard Literary) IPA(key): /səˈɡar/ [səˈɡar]
  • Rhymes: -əɡar, -ɡar, -ar
• Hyphenation: se‧gar

segar (Jawi spelling سݢر, comparative lebih segar, superlative paling segar)

1. healthy, fit (of plants, animals, humans)
   Synonyms: sihat, cergas, subur
2. fresh (of air)
   Synonyms: nyaman, sedap, enak

• kesegaran

• menyegarkan

• penyegar

• penyegaran

• sesegar

• tersegar

• > Indonesian: segar (inherited)

• "segar" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [_Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)_] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*se(ŋ)ger”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA(key): /s̺eˈɡaɾ/ [s̺ɨˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧gar

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguei, past participle segado)

1. to reap

• sega

• segada

• segadeira

• segador

• segadura

• Moisés, Pires (2004), “segar”, in Pequeno vocabulário Mirandês-Português [Small Mirandese-Portuguese Vocabulary], 2nd edition, Miranda do Douro: Câmara Municipal de Miranda do Douro, published 2019, →ISBN, page 471.

From Old Occitan segar, from Latin secāre.

segar

1. to harvest

• junhsèga
• sèga
• segada
• segasons

Old Galician-Portuguese

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From Latin secāre (“to cut”).

• IPA(key): /seˈɡaɾ/

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

Conjugation of segar

• Fala: segal
• Galician: segar
• Portuguese: segar
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “segar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “segar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Latin secāre.

• IPA(key): /seˈɡaɾ/

segar

1. to reap; to harvest

• Ladino: segar
• Spanish: segar
• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “segar”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 460

From Old Galician-Portuguese segar, from Latin secāre (“to cut”). Unrelated to secar (“to dry”), which is from Latin siccāre.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /seˈɡa(ʁ)/ [seˈɡa(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /seˈɡa(ʁ)/ [seˈɡa(h)]

  • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /seˈɡa(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /seˈɡa(ʁ)/ [seˈɡa(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA(key): /seˈɡa(ɻ)/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨˈɡaɾ/ [sɨˈɣaɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨˈɡaɾ/ [sɨˈɣaɾ]

  • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨˈɡa.ɾi/ [sɨˈɣa.ɾi]

• Homophone: cegar

• Hyphenation: se‧gar

segar (first-person singular present sego, first-person singular preterite seguei, past participle segado)

1. to scythe; to reap (to cut with a scythe)
   Synonyms: ceifar, gadanhar

• cossecante

• secante

• se(c)ção

• “segar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

• “segar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• “segar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish segar, from Latin secāre. Unrelated to secar (“to dry”), which is from Latin siccāre.

• IPA(key): /seˈɡaɾ/ [seˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧gar
• Homophone: (Latin America, Philippines) cegar

segar (first-person singular present siego, first-person singular preterite segué, past participle segado)

1. to harvest; to reap
   Synonym: cosechar
2. to mow
   Synonym: tundir

Selected combined forms of segar (e-ie alternation; g-gu alternation)

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

| | singular | plural | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | | | | with infinitive segar | dative | segarme | segarte | segarle, segarse | segarnos | segaros | segarles, segarse | | accusative | segarme | segarte | segarlo, segarla, segarse | segarnos | segaros | segarlos, segarlas, segarse | | | | | | | | | | | | with gerund segando | dative | segándome | segándote | segándole, segándose | segándonos | segándoos | segándoles, segándose | | accusative | segándome | segándote | segándolo, segándola, segándose | segándonos | segándoos | segándolos, segándolas, segándose | | | | | | | | | | | | with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative siega | dative | siégame | siégate | siégale | siéganos | not used | siégales | | accusative | siégame | siégate | siégalo, siégala | siéganos | not used | siégalos, siégalas | | | | | | | | | | | | with informal second-person singular voseo imperative segá | dative | segame | segate | segale | seganos | not used | segales | | accusative | segame | segate | segalo, segala | seganos | not used | segalos, segalas | | | | | | | | | | | | with formal second-person singular imperative siegue | dative | siégueme | not used | siéguele, siéguese | siéguenos | not used | siégueles | | accusative | siégueme | not used | siéguelo, siéguela, siéguese | siéguenos | not used | siéguelos, siéguelas | | | | | | | | | | | | with first-person plural imperative seguemos | dative | not used | seguémoste | seguémosle | seguémonos | seguémoos | seguémosles | | accusative | not used | seguémoste | seguémoslo, seguémosla | seguémonos | seguémoos | seguémoslos, seguémoslas | | | | | | | | | | | | with informal second-person plural imperative segad | dative | segadme | not used | segadle | segadnos | segaos | segadles | | accusative | segadme | not used | segadlo, segadla | segadnos | segaos | segadlos, segadlas | | | | | | | | | | | | with formal second-person plural imperative sieguen | dative | siéguenme | not used | siéguenle | siéguennos | not used | siéguenles, siéguense | | accusative | siéguenme | not used | siéguenlo, siéguenla | siéguennos | not used | siéguenlos, siéguenlas, siéguense | |

• segable

• segadera

• segadero

• segador

• segadora

• siega

• cosecante

• secante

• sección

• “segar”, 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

segar

1. present indicative of sega

• gaser, segra
• siegar

Inherited from Latin secāre. Compare Italian segare.

segar

1. (transitive) to saw

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• s(i)ega