doblar
Spanish, verb/doˈblaɾ/
doblar is spelled D-O-B-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written Spanish, the 14,293rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doblar is a Spanish verb meaning “to fold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hacer que algo sea dos veces lo que era. :*Sinónimo: duplicar”.
What does doblar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fold
- 2
to double
- 3
to bend, to turn
- 4
to dub (to replace speech with its translation)
- 5
to lap (to overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler)
- 6
to toll
- 7
to bend, to become curved
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hacer que algo sea dos veces lo que era. :*Sinónimo: duplicar. 2. Tener o valer dos veces la edad, el peso, etc., de otra persona, animal o cosa. 3. Poner algo flexible de modo de quede plano y que sus extremos opuestos se toquen. 4. Curvar un poco al ejercer una presión.
verb: 1. Tocar a muerto, tocar las campanas en señal de duelo.
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 doblar
- doblo first-person present singular
- doblé first-person preterite singular
- doblado participle past
- doblando gerund
- doblada feminine participle past
- doblados masculine participle past
- dobladas feminine participle past
- doblas indicative informal present
- doblás indicative informal present
- dobla indicative present singular
- doblamos first-person indicative plural
- dobláis indicative plural present
- doblan indicative plural present
- doblaba first-person imperfect indicative
- doblabas imperfect indicative second-person
- doblábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- doblabais imperfect indicative plural
- doblaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce doblar?
- /doˈblaɾ/
- [d̪oˈβ̞laɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to doblar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doblar in Spanish?
doblar appears 3.9 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).