plañir
Spanish, verb/plaˈɲiɾ/
plañir is a Spanish verb meaning “to cry and groan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Gemir y llorar, sollozando o clamando”.
What does plañir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cry and groan
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gemir y llorar, sollozando o clamando.
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 plañir
- plaño first-person present singular
- plañí first-person preterite singular
- plañido participle past
- plañendo gerund
- plañida feminine participle past
- plañidos masculine participle past
- plañidas feminine participle past
- plañes indicative informal present
- plañís indicative informal present
- plañe indicative present singular
- plañimos first-person indicative plural
- plañen indicative plural present
- plañía first-person imperfect indicative
- plañías imperfect indicative second-person
- plañíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- plañíais imperfect indicative plural
- plañían imperfect indicative plural
- plañiste indicative preterite second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plañir?
- /plaˈɲiɾ/
- [plaˈɲiɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to plañir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is plañir in Spanish?
plañir appears about once in every 43 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).