patrullaje

Spanish

Etymology

From patrullar +‎ -aje.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /patɾuˈʝaxe/ [pa.t̪ɾuˈʝa.xe] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /patɾuˈʎaxe/ [pa.t̪ɾuˈʎa.xe] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /patɾuˈʃaxe/ [pa.t̪ɾuˈʃa.xe] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /patɾuˈʒaxe/ [pa.t̪ɾuˈʒa.xe] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -axe
Syllabification: pa‧tru‧lla‧je

Noun

patrullaje m (plural patrullajes)

patrolling, patrol
- 2015 July 6, “La Policía detiene a dos hombres con 970 pastillas de éxtasis”, in El País‎^[1]:
  Los agentes vestidos de paisano realizaban este domingo en la tarde un patrullaje preventivo en el centro de la capital.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“patrullaje”, 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