allanamiento
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʝanaˈmjento/ [a.ʝa.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /aʎanaˈmjento/ [a.ʎa.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /aʃanaˈmjento/ [a.ʃa.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /aʒanaˈmjento/ [a.ʒa.naˈmjẽn̪.t̪o] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: a‧lla‧na‧mien‧to
Noun
allanamiento m (plural allanamientos)
- smoothing, flattening
- Synonyms: alisamiento, aplanamiento
- burglary
- (law) a search conducted pursuant to a warrant
- (Latin America) a police raid
- (Mexico, Spain) break-in
- Synonym: efracción
- Acusado de allanamiento de morada
- Charged with breaking and entering
Further reading
- “allanamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025