abajar

An archaic and regional variant of the everyday bajar (to go down, to lower), still heard in some rural areas of Spain and Latin America but considered nonstandard in modern written Spanish.

• Abaja del caballo con cuidado. — Get down off the horse carefully.
• El abuelo dice que hay que abajar al pueblo antes del mediodía. — Grandfather says we have to go down to the village before noon.
• Abajaron los precios en el mercado esta semana. — Prices went down at the market this week.

Using abajar in formal writing or standard conversation instead of bajar — a native speaker will understand it, but it reads as rustic or old-fashioned rather than simply "wrong."

Often confused with bajar.