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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

pelea

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pe-le-a

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Brawl/brɔːl/
nounverbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Hubo una pelea después del partido."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A noisy, rough, and disorderly fight involving several people.

    "The bar erupted into a brawl after the football match."
As verb
  1. 1

    To engage in a noisy, rough, and disorderly fight.

    "The two rival groups brawled in the street."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English words like bralllen or braulen, likely of Germanic origin akin to Middle Dutch braulen meaning to boast or clamor. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from a noisy quarrel or boastful commotion to its modern primary sense of a rough, disorderly physical fight.

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