restañar
Spanish, verb/restaˈɲaɾ/
restañar is spelled R-E-S-T-A-Ñ-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 29 million words in written Spanish, the 193,839th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Restañar is a Spanish verb meaning “to staunch (to stop the flow of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Volver a cubrir o bañar con estaño una superficie”.
What does restañar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to staunch (to stop the flow of)
- 2
to heal
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Volver a cubrir o bañar con estaño una superficie.
verb: 1. Hacer que se detenga el derrame o el curso de algún líquido, especialmente la sangre de una hemorragia.
verb: 1. Hacer un sonido fuerte y seco, como el del látigo cuando se sacude en el aire.
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 restañar
- restaño first-person present singular
- restañé first-person preterite singular
- restañado participle past
- restañando gerund
- restañada feminine participle past
- restañados masculine participle past
- restañadas feminine participle past
- restañas indicative informal present
- restañás indicative informal present
- restaña indicative present singular
- restañamos first-person indicative plural
- restañáis indicative plural present
- restañan indicative plural present
- restañaba first-person imperfect indicative
- restañabas imperfect indicative second-person
- restañábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- restañabais imperfect indicative plural
- restañaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce restañar?
- /restaˈɲaɾ/
- [res.t̪aˈɲaɾ]
- [rest̪aˈɲaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is restañar in Spanish?
restañar appears about once in every 29 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).