ollar

Galician

Alternative forms

• olhar (reintegrationist spelling)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese aollar, from Vulgar Latin *adoculāre, from oclus, from Latin oculus. Cognate with Portuguese olhar and Spanish aojar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈʎaɾ/, /oˈʎaɾ/

Verb

ollar (first-person singular present ollo, first-person singular preterite ollei, past participle ollado)

1. to look; to watch; to observe
   • 1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:

     […] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.

     […] employees don't allow him to humiliate them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ollar

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	ollar
Personal	ollar	ollares	ollar	ollarmos	ollardes	ollaren
Gerund
	ollando
Past participle
Masculine	ollado			ollados
Feminine	ollada			olladas
Indicative
Present	ollo	ollas	olla	ollamos	ollades	ollan
Imperfect	ollaba	ollabas	ollaba	ollabamos	ollabades	ollaban
Preterite	ollei	ollaches	ollou	ollamos	ollastes	ollaron
Pluperfect	ollara	ollaras	ollara	ollaramos	ollarades	ollaran
Future	ollarei	ollarás	ollará	ollaremos	ollaredes	ollarán
Conditional	ollaría	ollarías	ollaría	ollariamos	ollariades	ollarían
Subjunctive
Present	olle	olles	olle	ollemos	olledes	ollen
Imperfect	ollase	ollases	ollase	ollásemos	ollásedes	ollasen
Future	ollar	ollares	ollar	ollarmos	ollardes	ollaren
Imperative
Affirmative		olla	olle	ollemos	ollade	ollen
Negative (non)		non olles	non olle	non ollemos	non olledes	non ollen

Noun

ollar m (plural ollares)

1. look, stare

Related terms

• ollada
• ollo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aolhar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ollar”, 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), “ollar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ollar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Icelandic

Verb

ollar (weak)

1. second-person singular present indicative of olla
2. third-person singular present indicative of olla

Spanish

Noun

ollar m (plural ollares)

1. nostril (of a horse)

Further reading

• “ollar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Verb

ollar

1. present indicative of olla