How do you say “to slap” in Provençal?
In Provençal you say bacela, empega, engauta, esclafa, garça, manda. All forms are given in Mistralian spelling, as attested in our sources.
| Provençal equivalents | bacela, empega, engauta, esclafa, garça, manda, pica, soufleta |
Details of the Provençal equivalents
bacela
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to beat, to pester, to hit; to strike; to slap |
empega
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to stick, to steal, to swipe (steal), to slap, drunk; to agglutinate; to apply; to deal (a blow); to implicate |
| Variants | empèga |
engauta
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to take aim; to straighten; to slap |
esclafa
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to slap, to splash back; to whack; to splash |
garça
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to slap, to throw with force; to whack |
manda
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | dispatch, to send, to throw, to hurl, to let out (a cry); to send, to slap, to ask; to summon; to transmit |
pica
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to strike, to beat, to knock, to hammer, to offend, to slap; to strike; to prick; to tap |
soufleta
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to slap |