Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Latin#DOBLEGARCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#DOBLEGAR duplicāre. Compare the doublet duplicarCategory:Catalan doublets#DOBLEGAR, which was borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [dub.bləˈɣa]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#DOBLEGAR
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [dob.bləˈɣa]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#DOBLEGAR
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [do.bleˈɣaɾ]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#DOBLEGAR

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)Category:Rhymes:Catalan/a(ɾ)#DOBLEGARCategory:Rhymes:Catalan/a(ɾ)/3 syllables#DOBLEGAR

Verb

doblegar (first-person singular present doblego, first-person singular preterite dobleguí, past participle doblegat)Category:Catalan lemmas#DOBLEGARCategory:Catalan verbs#DOBLEGARCategory:Catalan first conjugation verbs#DOBLEGARCategory:Catalan verbs with g-gu alternation#DOBLEGARCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#DOBLEGARCategory:Pages with entries#DOBLEGARCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DOBLEGAR; root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (transitiveCategory:Catalan transitive verbs#DOBLEGAR, reflexiveCategory:Catalan reflexive verbs#DOBLEGAR) to fold, bend

   Synonyms: doblar, plegar

Further reading

• “doblegar”, 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
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “doblegar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#DOBLEGAR duplicāre, probably through the intermediate of CatalanCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Catalan#DOBLEGARCategory:Spanish terms derived from Catalan#DOBLEGAR doblegar in the 15th century, as it was not found earlier in Old Spanish texts and is completely absent in Portuguese as well.^[1] Doublet of duplicarCategory:Spanish doublets#DOBLEGAR, which was later borrowed directly from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dobleˈɡaɾ/ [d̪o.β̞leˈɣ̞aɾ]Category:Spanish 3-syllable words#DOBLEGARCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#DOBLEGAR
• Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ#DOBLEGARCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/3 syllables#DOBLEGAR
• Syllabification: do‧ble‧gar

Verb

doblegar (first-person singular present doblego, first-person singular preterite doblegué, past participle doblegado)Category:Spanish lemmas#DOBLEGARCategory:Spanish verbs#DOBLEGARCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -ar#DOBLEGARCategory:Spanish verbs with g-gu alternation#DOBLEGARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#DOBLEGARCategory:Pages with entries#DOBLEGARCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DOBLEGAR

1. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#DOBLEGAR, reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#DOBLEGAR) to bring down, vanquish, conquer, topple, defeat
2. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#DOBLEGAR, reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#DOBLEGAR) to fold, bend

   Synonyms: doblar, plegar

3. (transitiveCategory:Spanish transitive verbs#DOBLEGAR, mathematicsCategory:es:Mathematics#DOBLEGAR) to divide by two
4. (reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#DOBLEGAR) to kneel down

References

Further reading

• “doblegar”, 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

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