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Spanish
Etymology
From a- + babilla (“the stifle (as of a horse)”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ababiˈʝaɾse/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ababiˈʎaɾse/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ababiˈʃaɾse/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ababiˈʒaɾse/
- Rhymes: -aɾse
- Syllabification: a‧ba‧bi‧llar‧se
Verb
ababillarse (first-person singular present me ababillo, first-person singular preterite me ababillé, past participle ababillado)
- (veterinary medicine, Chile, Mexico) to be sick with the stifle (of horses and other quadrupeds)
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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