pelo

Sentences
Meaning

pelar

  1. to peel (fruits, vegetables)
  2. to skin (an animal)
  3. to shell (nuts, shellfish)
  4. to unwrap
  5. to pluck (a bird)
  6. to cut the hair of
  7. (transitive) to spread negative gossip, run down, criticise somebody
  8. to exfoliate
  9. (colloquial) to steal
  10. (colloquial) to fleece
  11. (Mexico, colloquial, especially, transitive) to notice someone, to pay attention to someone
  12. (reflexive, transitive, vulgar) to not matter
  13. (reflexive) to have one's hair cut
  14. (reflexive) to lose one's hair, to go bald
  15. (reflexive) to peel (of skin, from the sun, etc.)
  16. (reflexive) to fray (rope, wire)
  17. to strip (to remove the insulation from a wire/cable)
  18. (reflexive) (Chile) to steal
  19. (reflexive) (Chile) to flirt
  20. (reflexive) (Chile) to make out with a stranger at a social event

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
pe‧lo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpelo/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin pilus, from Proto-Indo-European *pil-. Compare English pile (“fine, short hair of certain animals”).

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