escobar
Spanish, verb/eskoˈbaɾ/
escobar is a Spanish verb meaning “to sweep (clean by sweeping)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Barrer (limpiar un lugar con la escoba)”.
What does escobar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sweep (clean by sweeping)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lugar donde hay muchas escobas (tipo de arbusto)
verb: 1. Barrer (limpiar un lugar con la escoba).
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 escobar
- escobo first-person present singular
- escobé first-person preterite singular
- escobado participle past
- escobando gerund
- escobada feminine participle past
- escobados masculine participle past
- escobadas feminine participle past
- escobas indicative informal present
- escobás indicative informal present
- escoba indicative present singular
- escobamos first-person indicative plural
- escobáis indicative plural present
- escoban indicative plural present
- escobaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escobabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escobábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escobabais imperfect indicative plural
- escobaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escobar?
- /eskoˈbaɾ/
- [es.koˈβ̞aɾ]
- [eskoˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escobar in Spanish?
escobar appears 7.6 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).