maullar

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: mau‧llar

Verb

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

to meow

Conjugation

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

		singular			plural
infinitive			maullar
gerund			maullando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		maullado		maullada
		plural		maullados		maulladas
		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	maúllas^{^tú} maullás^{^vos}	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	maúlles^{^tú} maullés^{^vos²}	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		maúlla^{^tú} maullá^{^vos}	maúlle	maullemos	maullad	maúllen
	negative		no maúlles	no maúlle	no maullemos	no maulléis	no maúllen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

maullido

Further reading

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

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