# igualar
## Catalan
### Etymology

From igual +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [i.ɣwəˈla]
* IPA: (Valencia) [i.ɣwaˈlaɾ]

### Verb

igualar (first-person singular present igualo, first-person singular preterite igualí, past participle igualat)
* (transitive) to make equal

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “igualar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “igualar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “igualar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “igualar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese igualar, from igual (“equal”) +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [iɣu̯aˈlaɾ]

### Verb

igualar (first-person singular present igualo, first-person singular preterite igualei, past participle igualado)
* (transitive) to match, equal, equalize

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* igual
* igualdade
* igualmente

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ygualar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ygual”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “igualar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “igualar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “igualar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From igual +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /i.ɡwaˈla(ʁ)/ [i.ɡwaˈla(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /i.ɡwaˈla(ʁ)/ [i.ɡwaˈla(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /i.ɡwaˈla(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /i.ɡwaˈla(ʁ)/ [i.ɡwaˈla(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /i.ɡwaˈla(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.ɡwɐˈlaɾ/ [i.ɣwɐˈlaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.ɡwɐˈlaɾ/ [i.ɣwɐˈlaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /i.ɡwɐˈla.ɾi/ [i.ɣwɐˈla.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: i‧gua‧lar

### Verb

igualar (first-person singular present igualo, first-person singular preterite igualei, past participle igualado)
* to match, equal, equalize

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

### Further reading

* “igualar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From igual +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iɡwaˈlaɾ/ [i.ɣ̞waˈlaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: i‧gua‧lar

### Verb

igualar (first-person singular present igualo, first-person singular preterite igualé, past participle igualado)
* (transitive) to make equal

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* igualación
* igualado
* igualador

### Further reading

* “igualar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10