abancalar

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/ [a.β̞ãŋ.kaˈlaɾ]
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

Conjugation of abancalar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			abancalar
gerund			abancalando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		abancalado		abancalada
		plural		abancalados		abancaladas
		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	abancalo	abancalas^{^tú} abancalás^{^vos}	abancala	abancalamos	abancaláis	abancalan
	imperfect	abancalaba	abancalabas	abancalaba	abancalábamos	abancalabais	abancalaban
	preterite	abancalé	abancalaste	abancaló	abancalamos	abancalasteis	abancalaron
	future	abancalaré	abancalarás	abancalará	abancalaremos	abancalaréis	abancalarán
	conditional	abancalaría	abancalarías	abancalaría	abancalaríamos	abancalaríais	abancalarían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	abancale	abancales^{^tú} abancalés^{^vos²}	abancale	abancalemos	abancaléis	abancalen
	imperfect (ra)	abancalara	abancalaras	abancalara	abancaláramos	abancalarais	abancalaran
	imperfect (se)	abancalase	abancalases	abancalase	abancalásemos	abancalaseis	abancalasen
	future¹	abancalare	abancalares	abancalare	abancaláremos	abancalareis	abancalaren

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		abancala^{^tú} abancalá^{^vos}	abancale	abancalemos	abancalad	abancalen
	negative		no abancales	no abancale	no abancalemos	no abancaléis	no abancalen

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

Further reading

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

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