🔹 Denominal Nouns Ending in -ar

The suffix -ar forms mainly masculine nouns that name a place where the entity expressed by the base noun grows, is abundant, is kept, or is produced:

• melón → melonar
• pino → pinar
• paloma → palomar

The nouns are ordered approximately by contemporary frequency and general usefulness. Words such as pinar, olivar, palomar, colmenar and melonar designate places populated by or associated with their nominal bases.

Pajar is explicitly formed from paja + -ar, while tejar names a place where tiles, bricks, and adobe are produced. The rarer locative formations malvar, aulagar, juncar and aljezar follow the same general pattern.