calar
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from LatinCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Latin#CALARCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#CALAR chalāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈla]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kaˈlaɾ]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#CALARAudio (Barcelona): (file) - Rhymes: -a(ɾ)Category:Rhymes:Catalan/a(ɾ)#CALARCategory:Rhymes:Catalan/a(ɾ)/2 syllables#CALAR
Verb
calar (first-person singular present calo, first-person singular preterite calí, past participle calat)Category:Catalan lemmas#CALARCategory:Catalan verbs#CALARCategory:Catalan first conjugation verbs#CALARCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
- (transitiveCategory:Catalan transitive verbs#CALAR, archaicCategory:Catalan terms with archaic senses#CALAR) to lower
- (transitiveCategory:Catalan transitive verbs#CALAR, nauticalCategory:ca:Nautical#CALAR) to lower (sails, masts, ships, nets, etc.)
- (transitiveCategory:Catalan transitive verbs#CALAR) to soak, to drench
- (transitiveCategory:Catalan transitive verbs#CALAR) to insert, to fit together
- (transitiveCategory:Catalan transitive verbs#CALAR) to set, to light (a fire)
- calar foc a ― to set fire toCategory:Catalan terms with usage examples#CALAR
- (reflexiveCategory:Catalan reflexive verbs#CALAR) to stall (of an engine: to stop suddenly)
- (transitiveCategory:Catalan transitive verbs#CALAR) to stall (to cause the engine of a manual-transmission car to stop)
Conjugation
| infinitive | calar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | calant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | calat | calada | |||||
| plural | calats | calades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | calo | cales | cala | calem | caleu | calen | |
| imperfect | calava | calaves | calava | calàvem | calàveu | calaven | |
| future | calaré | calaràs | calarà | calarem | calareu | calaran | |
| preterite | calí | calares | calà | calàrem | calàreu | calaren | |
| conditional | calaria | calaries | calaria | calaríem | calaríeu | calarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | cali | calis | cali | calem | caleu | calin | |
| imperfect | calés | calessis | calés | caléssim | caléssiu | calessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | cala | cali | calem | caleu | calin | |
| negative (no) | — | no calis | no cali | no calem | no caleu | no calin | |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “calar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “calar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “calar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “calar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#CALARCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#CALAR, from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#CALARCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#CALAR *callāre, from LatinCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#CALAR chalāre, from Ancient GreekCategory:Galician terms derived from Ancient Greek#CALAR χαλάω (khaláō). Cognate with Portuguese calar and Spanish callar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈlaɾ/ [kɑˈlaɾ]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
- Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Galician/aɾ#CALARCategory:Rhymes:Galician/aɾ/2 syllables#CALAR
- Hyphenation: ca‧lar
Verb
calar (first-person singular present calo, first-person singular preterite calei, past participle calado)Category:Galician lemmas#CALARCategory:Galician verbs#CALARCategory:Galician verbs ending in -ar#CALARCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
- (intransitiveCategory:Galician intransitive verbs#CALAR) to shut up; to be silent
- Calen barbas e falen cartas. (idiom) ― Let the beards [people] be silent and the charters [deeds] speak.Category:Galician terms with usage examples#CALAR
- 1405, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 227:
- Et as ditas persoas et coengos respondendo ao dito testemoyo et requerimento que contra elles tomaron os ditos omes moradores en Çesuras et en Çonay sobre rason da dita carta do dito corregidor diseron que a dita carta era de obedesçer et non de conprir por moytas rasoes a primeira por quanto a dita carta foy gaanada calada a uerdade et espremida a falsidade por quanto o dito Garçia Sanches nunca deu tal sentença commo os ditos moradores de Çesuras et de Çonan disen nen se prouaria que y ouuese libelo posto nen pleito concluso nen dia asignado para dar sentença por lo qual a dita carta non era de conprir nen a dita sentença non aueria efecto.Category:Galician terms with quotations#CALAR
- and said persons and canons, answering that testimony and requirement that against them gave said inhabitants of Cesuras and Zonán, on account of said magistrate's charter, said that the aforementioned charter was of obey but do not fulfil [non executive] for a number of reasons; the first one, because that deed was acquired by silencing the truth and expressing falsehood, because said García Sánchez never gave such a sentence as the inhabitants of Cesuras and Zonán say, nor it could be proven that there were a posted libel, nor a concluded lawsuit, nor a day assigned for giving the sentence, therefore that charter was non executive, nor said sentence could have any effect
- (nauticalCategory:gl:Nautical#CALAR, transitiveCategory:Galician transitive verbs#CALAR) to sink, submerge
- (nauticalCategory:gl:Nautical#CALAR, transitiveCategory:Galician transitive verbs#CALAR) to touch the bottom
- (transitiveCategory:Galician transitive verbs#CALAR) to fathom; to probe
Conjugation
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) |
Second-person (ti) |
Third-person (el / ela / Vde.) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | calar | |||||
| Personal | calar | calares | calar | calarmos | calardes | calaren |
| Gerund | ||||||
| calando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | calado | calados | ||||
| Feminine | calada | caladas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | calo | calas | cala | calamos | calades | calan |
| Imperfect | calaba | calabas | calaba | calabamos | calabades | calaban |
| Preterite | calei | calaches | calou | calamos | calastes | calaron |
| Pluperfect | calara | calaras | calara | calaramos | calarades | calaran |
| Future | calarei | calarás | calará | calaremos | calaredes | calarán |
| Conditional | calaría | calarías | calaría | calariamos | calariades | calarían |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | cale | cales | cale | calemos | caledes | calen |
| Imperfect | calase | calases | calase | calásemos | calásedes | calasen |
| Future | calar | calares | calar | calarmos | calardes | calaren |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | cala | cale | calemos | calade | calen | |
| Negative (non) | non cales | non cale | non calemos | non caledes | non calen | |
1Less recommended.
Derived terms
References
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “calar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “calar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “calar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “calar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “calar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “calar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- “calar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.lar/, [ˈt͡ʃa.lar]Category:Indonesian 2-syllable words#CALARCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
Noun
calar (plural calar-calar)Category:Indonesian lemmas#CALARCategory:Indonesian nouns#CALARCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
- scratch
- Synonym: baret
- Kulitnya tertutupi oleh calar-calar kecil.
- Her skin was covered with tiny scratches.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “calar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
Etymology
From calare.
Pronunciation
Noun
calar m (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#CALARCategory:Italian nouns#CALARCategory:Italian countable nouns#CALARCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#CALARCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Italian masculine nouns#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
- setting (of a heavenly body)
Derived terms
- calar del sole (“sunset”)
- calar della luna (“moonset”)
Further reading
- calar in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
Anagrams
Occitan
Etymology
From Old OccitanCategory:Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan#CALARCategory:Occitan terms derived from Old Occitan#CALAR [Term?]Category:Old Occitan term requests#CALAR, from Vulgar LatinCategory:Occitan terms inherited from Vulgar Latin#CALARCategory:Occitan terms derived from Vulgar Latin#CALAR *calāre or *callāre, from LatinCategory:Occitan terms derived from Latin#CALAR chalāre, from Ancient GreekCategory:Occitan terms derived from Ancient Greek#CALAR χαλάω (khaláō).
Pronunciation
Verb
calarCategory:Occitan lemmas#CALARCategory:Occitan verbs#CALARCategory:Occitan entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALARCategory:Occitan first group verbs#CALAR
- to shut up (prevent from speaking)
Conjugation
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | calar | aver calat | |||||
| gerund | calant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
| past participle | calat | — | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
| present | cali | calas | cala | calam | calatz | calan | |
| imperfect | calavi | calavas | calava | calàvem | calàvetz | calavan | |
| preterite | calèri | calères | calèt | calèrem | calèretz | calèron | |
| future | calarai | calaràs | calarà | calarem | calaretz | calaràn | |
| conditional | calariái | calariás | calariá | calariam | calariatz | calarián | |
| conditional 2nd form1 | calèra | calèras | calèra | caleram | caleratz | calèran | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
| present | cale | cales | cale | calem | caletz | calen | |
| imperfect | calèssi | calèsses | calèsse | calèssem | calèssetz | calèsson | |
| compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
| cala | calem | calatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | calar | aver calat | |||||
| gerund | calant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
| past participle | calat | — | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
| present | cale | cales | cala | calam | calatz | calon | |
| imperfect | calave | calaves | calava | calaviam | calaviatz | calavon | |
| preterite | calere | caleres | calet | calem | caletz | caleron | |
| future | calarai | calaràs | calará | calarem | calaretz | calarán | |
| conditional | calariá | calariás | calariá | calariam | calariatz | calarián | |
| conditional 2nd form1 | calèra | calèras | calèra | caleram | caleratz | calèran | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
| present | cale | cales | cale | calassiam | calassiatz | calon | |
| imperfect | calesse | calesses | calesse | calessiam | calessiatz | calesson | |
| compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
| cala | calassiam | calatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | calar | aver calat | |||||
| gerund | calant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
| past participle | calat | — | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
| present | cali | calas | cala | calam | calatz | calan | |
| imperfect | calavi | calavas | calava | calàvam | calàvatz | calavan | |
| preterite | calèi | calès | calè | calèm | calètz | calèn | |
| future | calarèi | calaràs | calarà | calaram | calaratz | calaràn | |
| conditional | calarí | calarés | calaré | calarem | calaretz | calarén | |
| conditional 2nd form1 | calèra | calèras | calèra | caleram | caleratz | calèran | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
| present | cali | cales | cale | calem | caletz | calen | |
| imperfect | calèssi | calèsses | calèsse | calèssem | calèssetz | calèssen | |
| compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
| cala | calem | calatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | calar | aver calat | |||||
| gerund | calant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
| past participle | calat | — | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
| present | cale | calas | cala | calam | calatz | calan | |
| imperfect | calava | calavas | calava | calàvam | calàvatz | calavan | |
| preterite | calei | caleras | calet | calèram | calèratz | caleran | |
| future | calarai | calaràs | calará | calarem | calaretz | calarán | |
| conditional | calariá | calariàs | calariá | calariam | calariatz | calarián | |
| conditional 2nd form1 | calèra | calèras | calèra | caleram | caleratz | calèran | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
| present | cale | cales | cale | calem | caletz | calen | |
| imperfect | calèsse | calèsses | calèsse | calèssem | calèssetz | calèssen | |
| compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
| cala | calem | calatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | calar | aver calat | |||||
| gerund | calant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
| past participle | calat | — | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
| present | cale | cales | cala | calam | calatz | calan | |
| imperfect | calavi | calavas | calava | calàvem | calàvetz | calavan | |
| preterite | calère | calères | calèt | caleriam | caleriatz | calèron | |
| future | calarai | calaràs | calarà | calarem | calaretz | calaràn | |
| conditional | calariáu | calariás | calariá | calariam | calariatz | calarián | |
| conditional 2nd form1 | calèra | calèras | calèra | caleram | caleratz | calèran | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
| present | cale | cales | cale | calem | caletz | calan | |
| imperfect | calèsse | calèsses | calèsse | calessiam | calessiatz | calèsson | |
| compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
| cala | calem | calatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
Portuguese
Etymology
From Vulgar LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin#CALARCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin#CALAR *callāre, from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Latin#CALARCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#CALAR chalāre, from Ancient GreekCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek#CALAR χαλάω (khaláō).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈla(ʁ)/ [kaˈla(h)]Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#CALARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /kaˈla(ɾ)/Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#CALARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /kaˈla(ʁ)/ [kaˈla(χ)]Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#CALARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /kaˈla(ɻ)/Category:Portuguese 2-syllable words#CALARCategory:Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
- Hyphenation: ca‧lar
Verb
calar (first-person singular present calo, first-person singular preterite calei, past participle calado)Category:Portuguese lemmas#CALARCategory:Portuguese verbs#CALARCategory:Portuguese verbs ending in -ar#CALARCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
- (pronominal) to shut up (to stop talking)
- (transitiveCategory:Portuguese transitive verbs#CALAR) to shut up (to stop someone from talking or something from making noise)
- Synonym: silenciar
Conjugation
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | calar | |||||
| Personal | calar | calares | calar | calarmos | calardes | calarem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| calando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | calado | calados | ||||
| Feminine | calada | caladas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | calo | calas | cala | calamos | calais | calam |
| Imperfect | calava | calavas | calava | calávamos | caláveis | calavam |
| Preterite | calei | calaste | calou | calamos1, calámos2 | calastes | calaram |
| Pluperfect | calara | calaras | calara | caláramos | caláreis | calaram |
| Future | calarei | calarás | calará | calaremos | calareis | calarão |
| Conditional | calaria | calarias | calaria | calaríamos | calaríeis | calariam |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | cale | cales | cale | calemos | caleis | calem |
| Imperfect | calasse | calasses | calasse | calássemos | calásseis | calassem |
| Future | calar | calares | calar | calarmos | calardes | calarem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | cala | cale | calemos | calai | calem | |
| Negative (não) | não cales | não cale | não calemos | não caleis | não calem | |
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
Further reading
- “calar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “calar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
- “calar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “calar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “calar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “calar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈlaɾ/ [kaˈlaɾ]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#CALARCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CALAR
- Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ#CALARCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/2 syllables#CALAR
- Syllabification: ca‧lar
Etymology 1
From cal (“lime”) + -arCategory:Spanish terms suffixed with -ar#CALAR, from LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#CALAR calx.
Adjective
calar m or f (masculine and feminine plural calares)Category:Spanish lemmas#CALARCategory:Spanish adjectives#CALARCategory:Spanish epicene adjectives#CALARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
Noun
calar m (plural calares)Category:Spanish lemmas#CALARCategory:Spanish nouns#CALARCategory:Spanish countable nouns#CALARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
- limestone quarry
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Etymology 2
From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#CALAR chalāre (“to descend”), from Ancient GreekCategory:Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek#CALAR χαλάω (khaláō).
Verb
calar (first-person singular present calo, first-person singular preterite calé, past participle calado)Category:Spanish lemmas#CALARCategory:Spanish verbs#CALARCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -ar#CALARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CALARCategory:Pages with entries#CALARCategory:Pages with 7 entries#CALAR
- (of a liquid) to soak
- te cala hasta los huesos
- it soaks you to the bone
- to pierce with a sharp instrument
- (colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#CALAR) to rumble, see through (to discover deceitful or underhanded behavior, hidden true motives or mindset)
- to catch on (become fashionable or popular)
- (reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#CALAR, SpainCategory:Peninsular Spanish#CALAR) to stall (an engine)
- (reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#CALAR) to put on (clothing)
Conjugation
| infinitive | calar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | calando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | calado | calada | |||||
| plural | calados | caladas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | calo | calastú calásvos |
cala | calamos | caláis | calan | |
| imperfect | calaba | calabas | calaba | calábamos | calabais | calaban | |
| preterite | calé | calaste | caló | calamos | calasteis | calaron | |
| future | calaré | calarás | calará | calaremos | calaréis | calarán | |
| conditional | calaría | calarías | calaría | calaríamos | calaríais | calarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | cale | calestú calésvos2 |
cale | calemos | caléis | calen | |
| imperfect (ra) |
calara | calaras | calara | caláramos | calarais | calaran | |
| imperfect (se) |
calase | calases | calase | calásemos | calaseis | calasen | |
| future1 | calare | calares | calare | caláremos | calareis | calaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | calatú calávos |
cale | calemos | calad | calen | ||
| negative | no cales | no cale | no calemos | no caléis | no calen | ||
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| infinitive | calarse | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | calándose | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | calado | calada | |||||
| plural | calados | caladas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| personal non-finite | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| infinitive | calarme | calarte | calarse | calarnos | calaros | calarse | |
| gerund | calándome | calándote | calándose | calándonos | calándoos | calándose | |
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | me calo | te calastú te calásvos |
se cala | nos calamos | os caláis | se calan | |
| imperfect | me calaba | te calabas | se calaba | nos calábamos | os calabais | se calaban | |
| preterite | me calé | te calaste | se caló | nos calamos | os calasteis | se calaron | |
| future | me calaré | te calarás | se calará | nos calaremos | os calaréis | se calarán | |
| conditional | me calaría | te calarías | se calaría | nos calaríamos | os calaríais | se calarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | me cale | te calestú te calésvos2 |
se cale | nos calemos | os caléis | se calen | |
| imperfect (ra) |
me calara | te calaras | se calara | nos caláramos | os calarais | se calaran | |
| imperfect (se) |
me calase | te calases | se calase | nos calásemos | os calaseis | se calasen | |
| future1 | me calare | te calares | se calare | nos caláremos | os calareis | se calaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | cálatetú calatevos |
cálese | calémonos | calaos | cálense | ||
| negative | no te cales | no se cale | no nos calemos | no os caléis | no se calen | ||
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “calar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025