volar
Spanish, verb/boˈlaɾ/
volar is spelled V-O-L-A-R (5 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written Spanish, the 4,150th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Volar is a Spanish verb meaning “to fly, to fly away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Moverse a través del aire sostenido por medio de alas”.
What does volar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fly, to fly away
- 2
to fly (on an airplane)
Volar a Buenos Aires es un viaje agotador.
- 3
to blow up
- 4
to anger, to exasperate, to infuriate
- 5
to rouse
- 6
to make fly out
- 7
Mexicoto get carried away, to go too far
No te vueles.
- 8
to release (a hunting falcon)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Moverse a través del aire sostenido por medio de alas. 2. Utilizar un aparato de transporte aéreo para viajar. 3. Trasladarse con mucha prisa. 4. Difundir algo rápidamente.
verb: 1. Utilizar explosivos para destruir algo. 2. Arrojar algo con violencia o hacerlo elevar 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 volar
- vuelo first-person present singular
- volé first-person preterite singular
- volado participle past
- o-ue alternation
- volando gerund
- volada feminine participle past
- volados masculine participle past
- voladas feminine participle past
- vuelas indicative informal present
- volás indicative informal present
- vuela indicative present singular
- volamos first-person indicative plural
- voláis indicative plural present
- vuelan indicative plural present
- volaba first-person imperfect indicative
- volabas imperfect indicative second-person
- volábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- volabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce volar?
- /boˈlaɾ/
- [boˈlaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to volar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is volar in Spanish?
volar appears 19 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).