currelar
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Caló currelar (“to work”), equivalent to currar (“to carry out”) + -elar (intensifier), cf. Romani kerel (“to do”) and Sanskrit कृणोति (kṛṇoti, “to make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kureˈlaɾ/ [ku.reˈlaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cu‧rre‧lar
Verb
currelar (first-person singular present currelo, first-person singular preterite currelé, past participle currelado)
- (Spain, colloquial) to work
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trabajar
Conjugation
Conjugation of currelar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Related terms
Further reading
- “currelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024