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Inherited from Latin vacāre.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡa(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Syllabification: va‧gar

vagar

1. to have time to do something.
2. to roam, to wander

Inherited from Latin vacāre.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡaɾ/ [baˈɣ̞aɾ]

vagar (first-person singular indicative present vago, past participle vagáu)

1. to have time (to do something)

   Nun me vaga dir pa Uviéu

   I don't have time to go to Oviedo

2. to become longer (the expected time), to take time (for something to happen)

   Va vagate diquiá a que vengan

   You are going to wait a long time from now until they come

   Va vagar

   It's going to take a long time

   Ha vagar

   It's going to take a long time for that to happen

3. to deserve (what happens to a person)

   Nun quixo trayer la chaqueta y agora vága-y pasar fríu

   He didn't want to bring the jacket and now he deserves to be cold

vagar m (uncountable)

1. free time

   Synonyms: fuelga, tarda, vacantín, avagu

• vagarosu

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vaˈɣaɾ]

Inherited from Latin vagārī.

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vaguí, past participle vagat)

1. (intransitive) to roam, to wander

   Synonyms: vagarejar, banderejar

• vagabund

Inherited from Latin vacāre. Doublet of vacar.

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vaguí, past participle vagat)(intransitive)

1. to idle, to loiter
2. to be vacant

   Synonym: vacar

• vaga
• vagant

• evagació

• “vagar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

From Old Galician-Portuguese vagar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vacō, vacāre.

• IPA^(key): [baˈɣaɾ]
• Hyphenation: va‧gar

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vaguei, past participle vagado)

1. (archaic) to be vacant or void

vagar m (plural vagares)

1. time; occasion, opportunity

   Synonyms: ocasión, tempo

   Cando teñas vagar bótalle unha ollada ― Whenever you have time take a look at this

   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Afonso:
     Pond'a messa, Cathaliña.
     Christobo:
     Sacad'essa bota, Irena.
     Alberte:
     Sacà, Marta, esse pernil.
     Cathaliña:
     Homes tende pouca pressa,
     que para todo ay bagar.

     Afonso:
     "Set the table, Cathaliña."
     Christobo:
     "Bring out that wineskin, Irena."
     Alberte:
     "Bring out, Marta, that ham."
     Cathaliña:
     "Men, be in little hurry,
     there is a time for everything."

2. rest, delay, idleness, free time

   Synonym: lecer

3. calmness, slowness

   Synonym: cachaza

• devagar
• devagariño

• vougo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vagor, vagārī.

• IPA^(key): [baˈɣaɾ]
• Hyphenation: va‧gar

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vaguei, past participle vagado)

1. to wander, roam

• vagabundo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vagar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vagar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vagar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “vagar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vagar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “vagar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vagar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese vagar, with influence from Portuguese devagar.

• IPA^(key): /vaˈɡaɾ/, /vaˈɡa/

vagar (augmentative vagar-vagar)

1. slowly, leisurely

   Antonyms: azinha, péssa

   vagar subí ― to go up slowly

   Vagar-vagar andâ! ― Walk very slowly!

vagar

1. time, free time

   Synonym: tempo

   Iou nôm têm vagar ― I don't have time

   Si têm vagar lôgo vêm ― If I have time I'll come

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#v

• IPA^(key): /vaˈɡa/
• Hyphenation: va‧gar

vagar

1. to wander
2. (nautical) to drift, go adrift

• Hyphenation: va‧gar

From Old Galician-Portuguese vagar, from Latin vagārī.

vagar m (plural vagares)

1. time; occasion, opportunity
2. calmness, slowness

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vaguei, past participle vagado)

1. to wander

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vaguei, past participle vagado)

1. Alternative form of vacar

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡaɾ/ [baˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: va‧gar

Inherited from Latin vacāre.

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vagué, past participle vagado)

1. to idle

From Latin vagārī.

vagar (first-person singular present vago, first-person singular preterite vagué, past participle vagado)

1. to roam, to wander

   Synonym: divagar

• “vagar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10