tamborilear
Spanish, verb/tamboɾileˈaɾ/
tamborilear is spelled T-A-M-B-O-R-I-L-E-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish, the 277,009th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tamborilear is a Spanish verb meaning “to drum (with the fingers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Alabar mucho a alguien, publicando y ponderando sus atributos y habilidad o capacidad”.
What does tamborilear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drum (with the fingers)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Alabar mucho a alguien, publicando y ponderando sus atributos y habilidad o capacidad. 2. Igualar las letras del molde con el tamborilete.
verb: 1. Tocar el tamboril. 2. Golpear una superficie con los dedos imitando el ruido de un tambor.
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 tamborilear
- tamborileo first-person present singular
- tamborileé first-person preterite singular
- tamborileado participle past
- tamborileando gerund
- tamborileada feminine participle past
- tamborileados masculine participle past
- tamborileadas feminine participle past
- tamborileas indicative informal present
- tamborileás indicative informal present
- tamborilea indicative present singular
- tamborileamos first-person indicative plural
- tamborileáis indicative plural present
- tamborilean indicative plural present
- tamborileaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tamborileabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tamborileábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tamborileabais imperfect indicative plural
- tamborileaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tamborilear?
- /tamboɾileˈaɾ/
- [t̪ãm.bo.ɾi.leˈaɾ]
- [t̪ãmboɾileˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tamborilear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tamborilear in Spanish?
tamborilear appears about once in every 63 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).