From Latin dūrāre.

durar (first-person singular indicative present duro, past participle duráu)

1. to last, to endure

• duración
• duru

• “durar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “durar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin dūrāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [duˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [duˈɾaɾ]

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durar (first-person singular present duro, first-person singular preterite durí, past participle durat)

1. to last, to endure
2. to persist
3. to wear well, to stand the test of time

• The main difference between trigar and durar when used transitively is that the former signifies some event that one has to wait for, while the latter signifies an ongoing action.

• trigar

• dur
• duració
• endurar

• “durar”, 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
• “durar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “durar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “durar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin dūrāre.

durar (first-person singular present duro, first-person singular preterite durei, past participle durado)

1. to last
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 119:

     ffazese nas costas do Cauallo hũa door que faz jnchaço grande et geerase daquel jnchaço carnes podres, et esto ven da sella que he maa ou do gran carrego que o preme moito, et aas vezes dura moito este jnchaço, fazese ende hũa peça de carne poçoenta que chega aos osos et sal vinino ou agooa.

     There appear in the sides of the horse an ache that produces a large swelling and that swelling creates rotten flesh, and this is because of the saddle, that is of poor quality, or from the large load that presses much, and sometimes this swelling lasts for a long time; it then appears a piece of venomous flesh that reaches the bones, and pus or water comes out of it

2. to endure

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “durar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “durar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “durar”, 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), “durar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “durar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “durar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “durar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

• IPA^(key): /duˈrar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: du‧ràr

durar (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of durare

From Old Occitan durar, from Latin dūrāre. Attested from the 12th century.^[1]

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durar

1. to last, to endure

• durada

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin dūrāre.

durar (first-person singular present duro, first-person singular preterite durei, past participle durado)

1. to last, endure

• duração
• duro
• endurar

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

Inherited from Latin dūrāre.

• IPA^(key): /duˈɾaɾ/ [d̪uˈɾaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: du‧rar

durar (first-person singular present duro, first-person singular preterite duré, past participle durado)

1. to last

   Un partido de fútbol dura 90 minutos.

   A football match lasts 90 minutes.

2. to take time

• “durar”, 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

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