arreglar

From a- +‎ regla +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.rəɡˈɡla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.reˈɣlaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

arreglar (first-person singular present arreglo, first-person singular preterite arreglí, past participle arreglat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to regulate

   Synonym: regular

2. to arrange

   Synonym: arranjar

3. to fix, mend

   Synonym: reparar

• “arreglar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Borrowed from Spanish arreglar.

• Hyphenation: ar‧re‧glar

arreglar (first-person singular present arreglo, first-person singular preterite arreglei, past participle arreglado)

1. (ambitransitive, Brazil, regional) to agree

   Synonyms: concertar, concordar

2. (transitive, Brazil, regional) to solve, to resolve

• “arreglar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “arreglar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “arreglar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From a- +‎ regla +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /areˈɡlaɾ/ [a.reˈɣ̞laɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rre‧glar

arreglar (first-person singular present arreglo, first-person singular preterite arreglé, past participle arreglado)

1. to fix, to repair, to mend
   • 2019 November 17, Manuel Viejo, ““No soy racista, voto a Vox porque primero hay que arreglar tu país””, in El País‎^[1]:

     E insiste: “No soy racista ni nada de eso, pero primero hay que arreglar tu propio país. Nada más”.

     And he insists: “I’m not a racist or anything like it, but your own country has to be fixed first. That’s all”.

2. to settle, to sort, to sort out, to patch up, to solve
3. to straighten out, to fix up, to tidy, to tidy up, to clean up
4. to arrange
5. to adjust
6. (reflexive) to get ready
7. (reflexive) to get by, to make do, to manage
8. (pronominal) to work out, to straighten out

• → Brazilian Portuguese: arreglar

• “arreglar”, 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