volar

From Latin vola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊlə(ɹ)/

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volar (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.

• palmoplantar

• palmar
• plantar

• orval, roval, valor

From Latin volāre, present active infinitive of volō (“I fly”).

volar

1. to fly

From Latin volāre, present active infinitive of volō (“I fly”).

volar (first-person singular indicative present vuelo, past participle voláu)

1. to fly (to travel through air)

• vuelu

Inherited from Old Catalan volar, from Latin volāre. Compare Occitan volar, French voler, Spanish volar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [buˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [voˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [voˈlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

volar (first-person singular present volo, first-person singular preterite volí, past participle volat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (intransitive) to fly
2. (intransitive, figurative) to vanish
3. (intransitive) to blow up
4. (transitive) to blow up; (figurative) to irritate
5. (pronominal) to get irritated

• vol

• “volar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “volar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “volar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “volar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French vouloir, Italian volere, ultimately from Latin volō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-. From the same root as voluntar.

• IPA^(key): /voˈlar/

volar (present tense volas, past tense volis, future tense volos, imperative volez, conditional volus)

1. to have a will (to do something)

• IPA^(key): /voˈlar/

volar

1. (intransitive) to fly (travel through the air)

From Old Occitan volar, from Latin volāre, present active infinitive of volō.

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volar

1. to fly

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Latin volāre. Compare Galician and Portuguese voar.

• IPA^(key): /boˈlaɾ/ [boˈlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: vo‧lar

volar (first-person singular present vuelo, first-person singular preterite volé, past participle volado)

1. (intransitive) to fly, to fly away
2. (transitive) to blow up
3. (transitive) to anger, to exasperate, to infuriate
4. (transitive) to rouse
5. (transitive) to make fly out
6. (transitive) to release (a hunting falcon)
7. (transitive) to raise to the top of the line (e.g., a letter or number)
8. (intransitive) to flutter, to hover
9. (intransitive) to spread like wildfire
10. (transitive) to disappear suddenly
11. (transitive) to jut out, to project
12. (transitive) to sell like hotcakes, fly off the shelves
13. (intransitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to hasten; to hurry up

    Synonym: apresurarse

    Volá y trae mis llaves.

    Hurry up and bring me my keys.

• “volar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• “volar” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010