verb/aˈʝaɾ/
to find something, deliberately or not; to strike (a balance between options); to find oneself in a certain way (+adjective); to enjoy oneself somewhere, enjoy one's time
“Al final sí lograron hallar dónde comprar el libro.” — In the end they did manage to find where to buy the book.
Synonyms: encontrar, trovar, encontrarse, imaginarse
Inherited from Old Spanish fallar (“to find”), following internal consonant spread and palatalization, namely via Vulgar Latin *faflāre, from Latin afflāre (“to breathe or blow upon”). Cognate to Portuguese achar, Romanian afla. For the phonetic development, compare Old Spanish finchar, Spanish hinchar.