avellanar

Catalan

Etymology

From avellana (“hazelnut”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βə.ʎəˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.və.ʎəˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ve.ʎaˈnaɾ]

Noun

avellanar m (plural avellanars)

1. hazelnut grove

   Synonym: avellaneda

Further reading

• “avellanar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /abeʝaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʝaˈnaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /abeʝaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʝaˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /abeʎaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʎaˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /abeʃaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʃaˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /abeʒaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʒaˈnaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ve‧lla‧nar

Etymology 1

From avellana +‎ -ar (“place where something is grown”).

Noun

avellanar m (plural avellanares)

1. hazelnut grove

   Synonym: avellaneda

Etymology 2

Verb

avellanar (first-person singular present avellano, first-person singular preterite avellané, past participle avellanado)

1. (technical) to countersink (create such a conical recess, a countersink)
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get wrinkly and old

Conjugation

    Conjugation of avellanar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			avellanar
gerund			avellanando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		avellanado		avellanada
		plural		avellanados		avellanadas
		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	avellano	avellanastú avellanásvos	avellana	avellanamos	avellanáis	avellanan
	imperfect	avellanaba	avellanabas	avellanaba	avellanábamos	avellanabais	avellanaban
	preterite	avellané	avellanaste	avellanó	avellanamos	avellanasteis	avellanaron
	future	avellanaré	avellanarás	avellanará	avellanaremos	avellanaréis	avellanarán
	conditional	avellanaría	avellanarías	avellanaría	avellanaríamos	avellanaríais	avellanarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	avellane	avellanestú avellanésvos2	avellane	avellanemos	avellanéis	avellanen
	imperfect (ra)	avellanara	avellanaras	avellanara	avellanáramos	avellanarais	avellanaran
	imperfect (se)	avellanase	avellanases	avellanase	avellanásemos	avellanaseis	avellanasen
	future1	avellanare	avellanares	avellanare	avellanáremos	avellanareis	avellanaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		avellanatú avellanávos	avellane	avellanemos	avellanad	avellanen
	negative		no avellanes	no avellane	no avellanemos	no avellanéis	no avellanen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

• avellanado
• avellanadora

 

Further reading

• “avellanar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014