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estrellar
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /estɾeˈʝaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʝaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /estɾeˈʎaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʎaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /estɾeˈʃaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /estɾeˈʒaɾ/ [es.t̪ɾeˈʒaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: es‧tre‧llar
Etymology 1
Cf. estrella (“star”), through the sense of "to make into a star(shape)", by smashing.
Verb
estrellar (first-person singular present estrello, first-person singular preterite estrellé, past participle estrellado)
- to smash, shatter
- (also pronominal) to crash
- El coche se estrelló contra la pared. ― The car crashed into the wall.
- 2017, Tyto Alba, Fellini en Roma, Astiberri, →ISBN, page 9:
- ¡Dios mío! ¡Nos vamos a estrellar! ¡Vamos a morir todos!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2022 September 4, Jesús A. Cañas, Reuters, “Un avión privado que había despegado de Jerez de la Frontera se estrella en Letonia”, in El País:
- Un avión privado se ha estrellado la noche de este domingo frente a las costas de Letonia, según ha anunciado el servicio de rescate de Suecia, y después de que dos aviones militares lo siguieran durante parte de su trayectoria.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to come to nothing
Conjugation
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin stellāris.
Adjective
estrellar m or f (masculine and feminine plural estrellares)
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Further reading
- “estrellar”, 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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