arrugar

From earlier rugar, from Latin rūgō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ruˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ruˈɣaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

arrugar (first-person singular present arrugo, first-person singular preterite arruguí, past participle arrugat)

1. (transitive) to wrinkle, crease
2. (pronominal, intransitive) to wrinkle, to get creased

• arrugament
• arrugat
• desarrugar

• arruga
• corrugar

• “arrugar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “arrugar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “arrugar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arrugar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin irrūgāre (“to wrinkle, to make wrinkled”), from rūga (“wrinkle”).

• IPA^(key): /aruˈɡaɾ/ [a.ruˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rru‧gar

arrugar (first-person singular present arrugo, first-person singular preterite arrugué, past participle arrugado)

1. (transitive) to crease, to crumple
2. (transitive) to wrinkle
3. (reflexive) to chicken out, back down, lose one's nerve

• “arrugar”, 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