pelear

Significado

1. (intransitive) to fight (to contend in physical conflict)
2. (intransitive) to fight, to argue
3. (intransitive) to fight for, to struggle against
4. (reflexive) to mutually fight
5. (broadly,reflexive) to discord or dispute; to become enemies
6. (broadly,reflexive) to lose or stop, temporally or definitively, a friendship, partnership, etc.

Con guión como

pe‧le‧ar

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/peleˈaɾ/

Etimología

From pelo (“hair”) + -ear, in the sense of close physical combat, as in the expression agarrarse de las greñas (“to fight”, literally “to grab each others' matted locks”). Compare the semantic development of Romanian părui (“to fight by pulling hair”) from Romanian păr (“hair”).