avellanar

Catalan

Etymology

From avellana (“hazelnut”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [ə.βə.ʎəˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.və.ʎəˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ve.ʎaˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [a.βe.ʎaˈna]

Noun

avellanar m (plural avellanars)

1. hazelnut grove

   Synonym: avellaneda

Further reading

• “avellanar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /abeʝaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʝaˈnaɾ]

• IPA^(key): /abeʝaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʝaˈnaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /abeʎaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʎaˈnaɾ] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /abeʃaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʃaˈnaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /abeʒaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.ʒaˈnaɾ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /abeaˈnaɾ/ [a.β̞e.aˈnaɾ] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ve‧lla‧nar

Etymology 1

From avellana + -ar (“place where something is grown”).

Noun

avellanar m (plural avellanares)

1. hazelnut grove

   Synonym: avellaneda

Etymology 2

Verb

avellanar (first-person singular present avellano, first-person singular preterite avellané, past participle avellanado)

1. (technical) to countersink (create such a conical recess, a countersink)
2. (pronominal) to get wrinkly and old

Conjugation

    Conjugation of avellanar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			avellanar
gerund			avellanando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		avellanado		avellanada
		plural		avellanados		avellanadas
		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	avellano	avellanastú avellanásvos	avellana	avellanamos	avellanáis	avellanan
	imperfect	avellanaba	avellanabas	avellanaba	avellanábamos	avellanabais	avellanaban
	preterite	avellané	avellanaste	avellanó	avellanamos	avellanasteis	avellanaron
	future	avellanaré	avellanarás	avellanará	avellanaremos	avellanaréis	avellanarán
	conditional	avellanaría	avellanarías	avellanaría	avellanaríamos	avellanaríais	avellanarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	avellane	avellanestú avellanésvos2	avellane	avellanemos	avellanéis	avellanen
	imperfect (ra)	avellanara	avellanaras	avellanara	avellanáramos	avellanarais	avellanaran
	imperfect (se)	avellanase	avellanases	avellanase	avellanásemos	avellanaseis	avellanasen
	future1	avellanare	avellanares	avellanare	avellanáremos	avellanareis	avellanaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		avellanatú avellanávos	avellane	avellanemos	avellanad	avellanen
	negative		no avellanes	no avellane	no avellanemos	no avellanéis	no avellanen

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

Derived terms

• avellanado
• avellanadora

Further reading

• “avellanar”, 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