abancalar
Spanish
Etymology
From a- + bancal (“terrace, plot of land”) + -ar.
Bancal is possibly from Andalusian Arabic منقالة (manqála), or from banco (“bench (for rowers)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abankaˈlaɾ/ [a.β̞ãŋ.kaˈlaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧ban‧ca‧lar
Verb
abancalar (first-person singular present abancalo, first-person singular preterite abancalé, past participle abancalado)
- (transitive) to terrace
Conjugation
Conjugation of abancalar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | abancalar | ||||||
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gerund | abancalando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | abancalado | abancalada | |||||
plural | abancalados | abancaladas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | abancalo | abancalastú abancalásvos | abancala | abancalamos | abancaláis | abancalan | |
imperfect | abancalaba | abancalabas | abancalaba | abancalábamos | abancalabais | abancalaban | |
preterite | abancalé | abancalaste | abancaló | abancalamos | abancalasteis | abancalaron | |
future | abancalaré | abancalarás | abancalará | abancalaremos | abancalaréis | abancalarán | |
conditional | abancalaría | abancalarías | abancalaría | abancalaríamos | abancalaríais | abancalarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | abancale | abancalestú abancalésvos2 | abancale | abancalemos | abancaléis | abancalen | |
imperfect (ra) | abancalara | abancalaras | abancalara | abancaláramos | abancalarais | abancalaran | |
imperfect (se) | abancalase | abancalases | abancalase | abancalásemos | abancalaseis | abancalasen | |
future1 | abancalare | abancalares | abancalare | abancaláremos | abancalareis | abancalaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | abancalatú abancalávos | abancale | abancalemos | abancalad | abancalen | ||
negative | no abancales | no abancale | no abancalemos | no abancaléis | no abancalen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
References
- “abancalar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
- “abancalar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014