esmayar

Etymology
. . Cognate with 🇨🇬.

and used to be interchangeable, but  is now obsolete and only found in its adjective form  or more commonly  (being hungry or famished), in southern Spanish dialects.

No conjugated instances of or  meaning "being hungry or famished" have been found.

The sense of "being hungry" may have been influenced or derived from Galician-Portuguese "craving to eat".

It may have also developed by the fact that one faints when they are famished.

Verb

 * 1)   to faint lose consciousness
 * After everyone left the Pantheon, the Mother Superior of the hospital, where they had taken me, told me that we should pray an Our Father. When we finished, I fainted again.
 * 1)  to cause a person to faint
 * 2)  to dishearten
 * 1)  to dishearten