pelear

Meaning

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.

Hyphenated as

pe‧le‧ar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/peleˈaɾ/

Etymology

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”).