Spanish–English dictionary

Dakar

The capital city of Senegal.

dalia

Any plant of the genus Dahlia, tuberous perennial flowering plants native to Mexico.

Dalila

The mistress of Samson who betrayed him to the Philistines.

dálmata

Relating to Dalmatia or its people.

dalmático

Relating to Dalmatia or its people.

dalo por hecho

An affirmative reply; yes; certainly.

dama

Any lady of dignified bearing, especially an older one.

dama chismosa

(derogatory) A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.

dama de honor

A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.

damas

(board games, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.

Damasco

The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE.

damero

A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.

Damián

A en given name.

damisela

A young woman (of noble birth).

damnación

(religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.

damnado

(figurative, of a location) Desolate, boring and depressing.

damnificar

(transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.

damno

Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

Dan

(biblical character) The fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah (who was Rachel's handmaid).

dañado

(of merchandise, etc.) Damaged.

dañar

(transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

dandi

A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.

dandy

Like a dandy, foppish.

danés

A person of Danish descent.

danesa

A person of Danish descent.

dañino

Causing damage; harmful, injurious.

daño

Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

daño de datos

(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.

dañoso

Causing or likely to cause harm or damage; injurious.

Dante

A en given name, presumably in honor of the poet Dante Alighieri.

Danubio

(with the) A river in Europe; flowing 2850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania.

danza

A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.

danzar

(intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.

Danzarín

The second reindeer of Santa Claus.

Danzig

Gdańsk (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Prussia or Germany).

dar

To give; to offer; to commit.

dar a conocer

(transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.

dar a entender

(intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.

dar a luz

(transitive) To bear or give birth to (a child).

dar agua a

(transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

dar al traste

To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.

dar asco

To cause an intense dislike for something.

dar cajeta

(reflexive, or, intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.

dar calabazas

(transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.

dar carpetazo

(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.

dar crédito

(idiom, chiefly in the negative) To believe that something which one hears is truly the case.

dar cuerda

(transitive, idiom) To cause (someone) to start talking about something in length.

dar de alta

(medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.

dar de baja

To take out of service or to render unusable.

dar de comer

(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

dar de mamar

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

dar de propina

To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. [from early 18th c.]

dar de sí

To propose someone for a toast, used in standard formulations for toasts.

dar derecho a

To give power or authority (to do something).

dar el alta

(medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.

dar el pecho

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

dar el pitazo

(transitive, theater, and, television) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.

dar el visto bueno

(transitive) To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.

dar en cara

(transitive) To disgrace, or bring shame upon.

dar en matrimonio

(transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]

dar entrada

(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration

dar esquinazo

(transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.

dar fruta

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

dar gusto

(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.

dar la bienvenida

To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".

dar la tabarra

(informal, idiom) To annoy or infuriate someone.

dar largas

(idiomatic) An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses.

dar lecciones

(transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

dar lumbago a alguien

(transitive) To affect (someone) with lumbago.

dar martillazos

To use a gavel.

dar matarile

(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

dar mazazos

To use a gavel.

dar miedo

(intransitive) (To be able) to be scared.

dar palmas

(intransitive) To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.

dar paupau

(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.

dar permiso

(transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.

dar poca importancia a

(transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.

dar por descontado

(transitive, idiomatic, especially of a person) To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of; to fail to appreciate, especially something one has grown heavily accustomed to; not to value or care for appropriately, out of the assumption that the person or thing not valued cannot be lost.

dar por hecho

(transitive, of a thing) To assume something to be true without verification or proof.

dar por sentado

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof

dar por supuesto

(transitive, of a thing) To assume something to be true without verification or proof.

dar que pensar

(idiomatic) Information or knowledge that is worthy of contemplation.

dar sentido

To comprehend.

dar soporte

(transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.

dar traspiés

(transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

dar tumbos

To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.

dar un bocinazo

(transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.

dar un cumplido

(ambitransitive) To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone).

dar un empujoncito a

(transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.

dar un indicio

(transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.

dar un mal paso

(transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.

dar un paso en falso

(idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.

dar un portazo

(transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.

dar un puñetazo

(transitive) To strike with one's fist.

dar un puntapié

(transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.

dar un tirón

(transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.

dar un traspié

(intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot

dar una paliza

To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

dar una patada

(transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.

dar una vuelta de campana

(intransitive) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.

dar velocidad

(transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.

dar vuelta

(transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.

dar vuelta a

(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

dar vueltas

(idiomatic) To repeatedly do the same thing without making any progress.

dar zancadas

(intransitive) To walk with long steps.

dardo

Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

dardos

(games, sports) A game or sport in which darts are thrown at a board, and points are scored depending on where the darts land.

Darío

Any of several kings in Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, 6th to 4th century BCE.

darle derecho a

To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.

darle el pie a

To give someone a cue signal.

darle la entrada a

To give someone a cue signal.

darle vueltas a

(intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.

darle vueltas a una idea

(intransitive) To ponder or consider.

darse cuenta

(idiomatic, of an idea) To occur to somebody; to be realized by.

darse de baja

(intransitive, Of the ground, floor, snow, etc., or figuratively, a worldview or foundation) To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.

darse el lote

(slang, chiefly, US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately. [from 20th c.]

darse la mano

(intransitive) To perform a handshake; to shake hands.

darse por vencido

(transitive) To lose hope concerning (someone or something)

darse prisa

(intransitive, poetic) To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry.

darse recuerdos

To convey greetings from.

darse un atracón de

To watch multiple episodes of a television programme in a short period of time.

darse un batacazo

(intransitive) To make the sound of a dull impact.

darse un hartazgo

(pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

darse un sentón

(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

darse una hartada

(pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

darse una panzada

(pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

dársela con queso

To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.

dársena

(US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.

darvinismo

The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

darwiniana

An adherent of Charles Darwin's theory of the origin of species, or of Darwinism.

darwiniano

Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

darwinismo

The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.

darwinismo social

(science) The theory that the laws of evolution by natural selection also apply to social structures.

darwinista

Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

data

The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.

datación

A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.

datar

To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

dátil

The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel. [from 14th c.]

dato

Something known or assumed as fact, and is made the basis of reasoning or inference which an intellectual system of any sort (such as knowledge or theoretical framework) is constructed.

dato valioso

(countable) A tidbit of something valuable.

davalar

(intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.

Davos

A mountain resort and municipality in Grisons, Switzerland, host of the World Economic Forum.

DD. HH.

(international law) The set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

DDC

(countable, uncountable, video games) Initialism of downloadable content.

de

A province of Ecuador comprising the islands.

de abajo

Lower; under.

de actualidad

Relating to a topic or subject of current interest.

de acuerdo

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

de acuerdo a

In a manner conforming or corresponding to; in proportion to; in accordance with. [from 16th c.]

de admiración

Feeling or showing admiration.