arrabal
Spanish, noun/araˈbal/
arrabal is spelled A-R-R-A-B-A-L (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 34,926th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrabal is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “suburb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Barrio fuera del recinto de una población o en su periferia, en especial aquél cuya población tiene un bajo…”.
What does arrabal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesuburb
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Barrio fuera del recinto de una población o en su periferia, en especial aquél cuya población tiene un bajo nivel económico. 2. Cualquiera de los sitios extremos de una población. 3. Población anexa a otra mayor.
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 arrabal
- arrabales plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrabal?
- /araˈbal/
- [a.raˈβ̞al]
- [araˈβ̞al]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrabal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrabal in Spanish?
arrabal appears 1.0 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).