maullar

Spanish

Etymology

Variant of dialectal maular, of imitative origin, with influence from aullar (“to bay, howl”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mauˈʝaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): /mauˈʝaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʝaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /mauˈʎaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʎaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /mauˈʃaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /mauˈʒaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʒaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mau‧llar

Verb

maullar (first-person singular present maúllo, first-person singular preterite maullé, past participle maullado)

1. to meow

Conjugation

    Conjugation of maullar (u-ú alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			maullar
gerund			maullando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		maullado		maullada
		plural		maullados		maulladas
		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	maúllo	maúllastú maullásvos	maúlla	maullamos	maulláis	maúllan
	imperfect	maullaba	maullabas	maullaba	maullábamos	maullabais	maullaban
	preterite	maullé	maullaste	maulló	maullamos	maullasteis	maullaron
	future	maullaré	maullarás	maullará	maullaremos	maullaréis	maullarán
	conditional	maullaría	maullarías	maullaría	maullaríamos	maullaríais	maullarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	maúlle	maúllestú maullésvos2	maúlle	maullemos	maulléis	maúllen
	imperfect (ra)	maullara	maullaras	maullara	maulláramos	maullarais	maullaran
	imperfect (se)	maullase	maullases	maullase	maullásemos	maullaseis	maullasen
	future1	maullare	maullares	maullare	maulláremos	maullareis	maullaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		maúllatú maullávos	maúlle	maullemos	maullad	maúllen
	negative		no maúlles	no maúlle	no maullemos	no maulléis	no maúllen

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

Related terms

• maullido

Further reading

• “maullar”, 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