pestañear
Spanish
Etymology
From pestaña (“eyelash”) + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pestaɲeˈaɾ/ [pes.t̪a.ɲeˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pes‧ta‧ñe‧ar
Verb
pestañear (first-person singular present pestañeo, first-person singular preterite pestañeé, past participle pestañeado)
- (intransitive) to blink
- Synonym: parpadear
- (intransitive) to bat an eyelid
Conjugation
Conjugation of pestañear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pestañear”, 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