embalsar
Spanish, verb/embalˈsaɾ/
embalsar is spelled E-M-B-A-L-S-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish, the 246,963rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embalsar is a Spanish verb meaning “to dam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner en una balsa”.
What does embalsar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dam
- 2
to put on a raft
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner en una balsa. 2. Retener en un embalse, especialmente cuando se trata de un líquido.
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 embalsar
- embalso first-person present singular
- embalsé first-person preterite singular
- embalsado participle past
- embalsando gerund
- embalsada feminine participle past
- embalsados masculine participle past
- embalsadas feminine participle past
- embalsas indicative informal present
- embalsás indicative informal present
- embalsa indicative present singular
- embalsamos first-person indicative plural
- embalsáis indicative plural present
- embalsan indicative plural present
- embalsaba first-person imperfect indicative
- embalsabas imperfect indicative second-person
- embalsábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- embalsabais imperfect indicative plural
- embalsaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embalsar?
- /embalˈsaɾ/
- [ẽm.balˈsaɾ]
- [ẽmbalˈsaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to embalsar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is embalsar in Spanish?
embalsar appears about once in every 49 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).