devanar
Spanish, verb/debaˈnaɾ/
devanar is a Spanish verb meaning “to coil, wind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Enrollar hilo u otro filamento alrededor de un objeto como ovillo, carrete, eje, etc”.
What does devanar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to coil, wind
- 2
to throw (something) to the ground
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enrollar hilo u otro filamento alrededor de un objeto como ovillo, carrete, eje, etc.
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 devanar
- devano first-person present singular
- devané first-person preterite singular
- devanado participle past
- devanando gerund
- devanada feminine participle past
- devanados masculine participle past
- devanadas feminine participle past
- devanas indicative informal present
- devanás indicative informal present
- devana indicative present singular
- devanamos first-person indicative plural
- devanáis indicative plural present
- devanan indicative plural present
- devanaba first-person imperfect indicative
- devanabas imperfect indicative second-person
- devanábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- devanabais imperfect indicative plural
- devanaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce devanar?
- /debaˈnaɾ/
- [d̪e.β̞aˈnaɾ]
- [d̪eβ̞aˈnaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to devanar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is devanar in Spanish?
devanar appears about once in every 93 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).