rebanar
Spanish, verb
rebanar is spelled R-E-B-A-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 112,257th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rebanar is a Spanish verb meaning “to slice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, rebañar is a different word: “to mop up (food or sauce, e.g. with bread)”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cortar en rebanadas”.
What does rebanar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slice
verb
- 1
to mop up (food or sauce, e.g. with bread)
- 2
to scrape together (money)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cortar en rebanadas 2. Cortar algo, bien dividiéndolo o no, de una parte a otra
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 rebanar
- rebano first-person present singular
- rebané first-person preterite singular
- rebanado participle past
- rebanando gerund
- rebanada feminine participle past
- rebanados masculine participle past
- rebanadas feminine participle past
- rebanas indicative informal present
- rebanás indicative informal present
- rebana indicative present singular
- rebanamos first-person indicative plural
- rebanáis indicative plural present
- rebanan indicative plural present
- rebanaba first-person imperfect indicative
- rebanabas imperfect indicative second-person
- rebanábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- rebanabais imperfect indicative plural
- rebanaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is rebanar in Spanish?
rebanar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).