adjective/esmaˈʝao/
famished, hungry. Mainly used in southern Spanish dialects.
Syncopic form of esmayado. Cognate with English dismay, Portuguese desmaiar. Doublet of desmayar No conjugated forms of the possible verb desmayarse 'to be hungry' have been found. Most likely from the same root as desmayar and dismay but without the -dis suffix. 22-ii-1868 Jable (El Ómnibus, p.3) uses "estomagos desmayados" with the meaning of 'to be hungry', but later works differentiated between desmayar as 'faint' and esmayado as 'hungry'. "Esmayalse" also attested