anhelar

Borrowed from Latin anhēlāre (“pant, gasp; long for”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.nəˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.neˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: an‧he‧lar

anhelar (first-person singular present anhelo, first-person singular preterite anhelí, past participle anhelat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. to crave
2. to gasp
3. to pant

• anhel

• “anhelar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “anhelar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “anhelar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from French anhéler, Italian anelare, Spanish anhelar. Decision no. 1216, Progreso VII.

• IPA^(key): /an.heˈlar/

anhelar (present anhelas, past anhelis, future anhelos, conditional anhelus, imperative anhelez)

1. (intransitive) to pant, gasp for breath

• anhelegar
• anheligar (“to put out of breath, to wind”)
• anhelo (“panting; anhelation”)

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 323
• Progreso IV (in Ido), 1911–1912, page 106, 386
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 66

Borrowed from Latin anhēlāre (“pant, gasp; long for”). Cf. also alentar and Italian anelare.

• IPA^(key): /aneˈlaɾ/ [a.neˈlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: an‧he‧lar

anhelar (first-person singular present anhelo, first-person singular preterite anhelé, past participle anhelado)

1. to long for, to yearn, to yearn for, to long, to desire, to hanker
2. to crave
3. to gasp
4. to pant

• “anhelar”, 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