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abarca

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El que   mucho   abarca
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  poco   aprieta .

Don’t bite off more than you can chew. American proverb

abarcar

  1. (transitive) to embrace (to hold with the arms)
  2. (transitive) to include, to encompass, to comprise, to contain, to make up; to range, to span
  3. (transitive) to take in (a sight)
  4. (transitive) to undertake, to embark upon, to take on (a task)
  5. (Latin-America, transitive) to monopolize, to corner

Frequency

29k
Hyphenated as
a‧bar‧ca
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈbaɾka/
Etymology

From Paleo-Hispanic, probably from Basque abarka. Doublet of alpargata, which was first borrowed by Arabic.

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