cuñar
Spanish, verb/kuˈɲaɾ/
cuñar is spelled C-U-Ñ-A-R (5 letters). Cuñar is a Spanish verb meaning “synonym of acuñar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mover rítmica y suavemente a un niño, en los brazos o en la cuna₁, para ayudarle a dormirse”.
What does cuñar mean in English?
verb
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synonym of acuñar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mover rítmica y suavemente a un niño, en los brazos o en la cuna₁, para ayudarle a dormirse. 2. Hacer con los brazos la forma de una cuna para cargar a un bebé o a un animal pequeño. 3. Poner a un niño en la cuna.
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 cuñar
- cuño first-person present singular
- cuñé first-person preterite singular
- cuñado participle past
- cuñando gerund
- cuñada feminine participle past
- cuñados masculine participle past
- cuñadas feminine participle past
- cuñas indicative informal present
- cuñás indicative informal present
- cuña indicative present singular
- cuñamos first-person indicative plural
- cuñáis indicative plural present
- cuñan indicative plural present
- cuñaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cuñabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cuñábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cuñabais imperfect indicative plural
- cuñaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cuñar?
- /kuˈɲaɾ/
- [kuˈɲaɾ]
- [kuˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.