abarrar

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from Latin verrĕre (“to sweep away, scrape”). The Royal Spanish Academy notes that an alternative etymology proposed by Corominas is from Arabic بَرّ (barr, “outside”), via Andalusian Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abaˈraɾ/ [a.β̞aˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧rrar

Verb

abarrar (first-person singular present abarro, first-person singular preterite abarré, past participle abarrado)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to throw with force

   Synonym: arrojar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of abarrar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			abarrar
gerund			abarrando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		abarrado		abarrada
		plural		abarrados		abarradas
		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	abarro	abarrastú abarrásvos	abarra	abarramos	abarráis	abarran
	imperfect	abarraba	abarrabas	abarraba	abarrábamos	abarrabais	abarraban
	preterite	abarré	abarraste	abarró	abarramos	abarrasteis	abarraron
	future	abarraré	abarrarás	abarrará	abarraremos	abarraréis	abarrarán
	conditional	abarraría	abarrarías	abarraría	abarraríamos	abarraríais	abarrarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	abarre	abarrestú abarrésvos2	abarre	abarremos	abarréis	abarren
	imperfect (ra)	abarrara	abarraras	abarrara	abarráramos	abarrarais	abarraran
	imperfect (se)	abarrase	abarrases	abarrase	abarrásemos	abarraseis	abarrasen
	future1	abarrare	abarrares	abarrare	abarráremos	abarrareis	abarraren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		abarratú abarrávos	abarre	abarremos	abarrad	abarren
	negative		no abarres	no abarre	no abarremos	no abarréis	no abarren

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “abarrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025