arrebatar
Spanish, verb/arebaˈtaɾ/
arrebatar is spelled A-R-R-E-B-A-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 33,004th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrebatar is a Spanish verb meaning “to snatch, wrest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tomar por la fuerza un objeto de manos de otro”.
What does arrebatar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to snatch, wrest
- 2
to captivate (with beauty)
- 3
to take (a life)
- 4
to get angry, to get carried away
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tomar por la fuerza un objeto de manos de otro. 2. Apropiarse por la fuerza de algo. 3. Atraer el foco de atención. 4. Conmover, alterar el espíritu.
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 arrebatar
- arrebato first-person present singular
- arrebaté first-person preterite singular
- arrebatado participle past
- arrebatando gerund
- arrebatada feminine participle past
- arrebatados masculine participle past
- arrebatadas feminine participle past
- arrebatas indicative informal present
- arrebatás indicative informal present
- arrebata indicative present singular
- arrebatamos first-person indicative plural
- arrebatáis indicative plural present
- arrebatan indicative plural present
- arrebataba first-person imperfect indicative
- arrebatabas imperfect indicative second-person
- arrebatábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- arrebatabais imperfect indicative plural
- arrebataban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrebatar?
- /arebaˈtaɾ/
- [a.re.β̞aˈt̪aɾ]
- [areβ̞aˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrebatar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrebatar in Spanish?
arrebatar appears 1.1 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).