alabar
Spanish, verb/alaˈbaɾ/
alabar is spelled A-L-A-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 27,880th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alabar is a Spanish verb meaning “to praise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Expresar una valoración positiva o celebrar las bondades de alguien o algo, generalmente con palabras”.
What does alabar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to praise
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Expresar una valoración positiva o celebrar las bondades de alguien o algo, generalmente con palabras.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alabar
- alabo first-person present singular
- alabé first-person preterite singular
- alabado participle past
- alabando gerund
- alabada feminine participle past
- alabados masculine participle past
- alabadas feminine participle past
- alabas indicative informal present
- alabás indicative informal present
- alaba indicative present singular
- alabamos first-person indicative plural
- alabáis indicative plural present
- alaban indicative plural present
- alababa first-person imperfect indicative
- alababas imperfect indicative second-person
- alabábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- alababais imperfect indicative plural
- alababan imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alabar?
- /alaˈbaɾ/
- [a.laˈβ̞aɾ]
- [alaˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alabar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alabar in Spanish?
alabar appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).