amainar
Spanish, verb/amaiˈnaɾ/
amainar is spelled A-M-A-I-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 160,355th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amainar is a Spanish verb meaning “to abate, to die down, to subside, to let up, to ease off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Recoger en todo o en parte las velas de una embarcación para que no camine tanto”.
What does amainar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to abate, to die down, to subside, to let up, to ease off
- 2
to shorten, to take in
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Recoger en todo o en parte las velas de una embarcación para que no camine tanto. 2. Desviar o retirar los pozos de las cubas u otras vasijas que se emplean en ellos.
verb: 1. Dicho del viento: Aflojar, perder su fuerza. 2. Aflojar o ceder en algún deseo, empeño o pasión. 3. Habituarse, acostumbrarse.
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 amainar
- amaino first-person present singular
- amainé first-person preterite singular
- amainado participle past
- amainando gerund
- amainada feminine participle past
- amainados masculine participle past
- amainadas feminine participle past
- amainas indicative informal present
- amainás indicative informal present
- amaina indicative present singular
- amainamos first-person indicative plural
- amaináis indicative plural present
- amainan indicative plural present
- amainaba first-person imperfect indicative
- amainabas imperfect indicative second-person
- amainábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- amainabais imperfect indicative plural
- amainaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amainar?
- /amaiˈnaɾ/
- [a.mai̯ˈnaɾ]
- [amajˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to amainar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amainar in Spanish?
amainar appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).