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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/
- 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
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
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