señar
Spanish, verb/seˈɲaɾ/
señar is spelled S-E-Ñ-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish, the 172,602nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Señar is a Spanish verb meaning “to sign (to use sign language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pagar un adelanto de dinero o cuota inicial para reservar la compra/venta de un producto o mercancía”.
What does señar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Latin-Americato sign (to use sign language)
verb
- 1
to pay in advance
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pagar un adelanto de dinero o cuota inicial para reservar la compra/venta de un producto o mercancía.
verb: 1. Comunicarse a través de la lengua de señas para sordos.
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 señar
- seño first-person present singular
- señé first-person preterite singular
- señado participle past
- señando gerund
- señada feminine participle past
- señados masculine participle past
- señadas feminine participle past
- señas indicative informal present
- señás indicative informal present
- seña indicative present singular
- señamos first-person indicative plural
- señáis indicative plural present
- señan indicative plural present
- señaba first-person imperfect indicative
- señabas imperfect indicative second-person
- señábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- señabais imperfect indicative plural
- señaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce señar?
- /seˈɲaɾ/
- [seˈɲaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is señar in Spanish?
señar appears about once in every 22 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).