Italian

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ balla +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ab.balˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ab‧bal‧là‧re

Verb

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  This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

abballàre (first-person singular present abbàllo, first-person singular past historic abballài, past participle abballàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (rare) to wrap into a bundle(s)

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • abballare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • abballare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Neapolitan

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Verb

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abballare

  1. Alternative form of ballare (to dance) (prefixed with a-)

References

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  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “abballare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano