Spanish word

grabar

Pronunciation

IPA/gɾaˈβaɾ/

Meaning

  • verbrecord

Example

¿Puedo grabar la entrevista?

Can I record the interview?

Illustration for grabar (record)

More examples

¿Puedes grabar un mensaje y enviármelo?

Could you record a message and send it to me?

Core concept

Person pressing a device's record button as speech enters the microphone.

Common phrases

  • grabar un mensaje

    record a message

  • grabar en el móvil

    record on a mobile phone

  • grabar en directo

    record live

Similar words

guardar: Storing files or data on a device so they remain preserved and retrievable.
recordar: Bringing past events or information back into the mind as memories.
filmar: Shooting moving images with a camera to produce video footage.
registrar: Entering events or data into an official record or log for documentation.

Definition in Spanish

Capturar y conservar sonidos u otras señales en un soporte físico o digital para su posterior reproducción.

Word origin

From Greek graphein 'to write' via Latin, with an original sense of inscribing that later extended to saving voices and signals onto a medium.

Usage tips

  • When recording people, conversational norms normally call for asking for consent aloud before starting rather than recording without notice.

Other meanings

  • videotapeverb
  • engraveverb

Opposites

Related words

  • regrabarre-recordverb
  • regrabaciónre-recordingnoun

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