tallar
Spanish, verb/taˈʝaɾ/
tallar is spelled T-A-L-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 44,034th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tallar is a Spanish verb meaning “to sculpt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Esculpir, labrar”.
What does tallar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sculpt
- 2
to measure
- 3
to carve
- 4
to whittle
- 5
Mexicoto scrub, to rub in
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante obsoleta de tajar. 2. Esculpir, labrar. 3. Grabar una inscripción un metal. 4. Cortar el mazo.
verb: 1. Actuar, trabajar. 2. Destacar, romperla, descoserla. 3. Entrometerse en conversaciones ajenas. 4. Hablar de amores un hombre y una mujer.
adjective: 1. Que puede ser talado o cortado. 2. Aplícase a una clase de peines pequeños.
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 tallar
- tallo first-person present singular
- tallé first-person preterite singular
- tallado participle past
- tallando gerund
- tallada feminine participle past
- tallados masculine participle past
- talladas feminine participle past
- tallas indicative informal present
- tallás indicative informal present
- talla indicative present singular
- tallamos first-person indicative plural
- talláis indicative plural present
- tallan indicative plural present
- tallaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tallabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tallábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tallabais imperfect indicative plural
- tallaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tallar?
- /taˈʝaɾ/
- [t̪aˈʝaɾ]
- [t̪aˈʎaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tallar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tallar in Spanish?
tallar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).