chamuscar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chamuscar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from chama (“flame”), perhaps blended with charamusca, faísca, "spark, hot ash".[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃamusˈkaɾ/

chamuscar (first-person singular present chamusco, first-person singular preterite chamusquei, past participle chamuscado)

1. to singe (to burn slightly)
2. to singe (to remove the hair by passing it over a flame)
   • 1391, M. Lucas Álvarez & P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media. Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 106:

     e que nos diades mays uos e todas uosas uozes para senpre de cada hun anos hun porco chamoscado, que seja sen maliça, con pan e con vino, segundo huso e costume da comarca

     and you and your successors shall give us, each year and forever, a singed pork, free of any malice, with bread and wine, as it is customary in the shire

3. to scorch (to become scorched)

• chamuscado
• chamusco

• → Spanish: chamuscar

• “chamuscar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “Chamuscar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chamuscar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chamuscar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chamuscar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Portuguese chamuscar.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ.muʃ.ˈkaɾ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃa.mus.ˈkaɾ/, /ʃa.mus.ˈkaɻ/
• Hyphenation: cha‧mus‧car

chamuscar (first-person singular present indicative chamusco, past participle chamuscado)

1. to singe (to burn slightly)

• chamuscado
• chamuscamento

• Spanish: chamuscar

From Portuguese chamuscar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃamusˈkaɾ/

chamuscar (first-person singular present chamusco, first-person singular preterite chamusqué, past participle chamuscado)

1. to scorch, to singe

• c becomes qu before e.