pegar

From Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), from pix (“pitch”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pəˈɡa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /peˈɡaɾ/
• Homophones: pagar

pegar (first-person singular present pego, past participle pegat)

1. to hit somebody (in order to harm)

   Per què li pegueu a aquest noi?

   Why are you hitting this boy?

2. (dialectal) to hit one body with another

   Vaig pegar de cap a la paret

   I hit my head against the wall

3. (dialectal) (used with cop (“knock”), empenta (“shove”), etc.) to knock, to shove somebody

   Li va pegar una empenta

   He 'shoved her

4. (dialectal) (used with bot (“jump”), salt (“jump”) etc.) to jump

   Va pegar un bot

   He jumped

5. (dialectal) to throw, to show sudden emotion.

   Li va pegar una rabinadura al mig de la plaça

   He threw a tantrum in the middle of the square

6. (dialectal) to glue

• (used with cop (“knock”), empenta (“shove”), etc.): donar
• (to shove): empènyer
• (used with bot (“jump”), salt (“jump”) etc.): donar, fer
• (to jump): saltar
• (to show sudden emotion) agafar
• (to hit one body with another): topar, xocar
• (to glue): enganxar, encolar

Words like "to jump", "to shove", "to knock" can be expressed in two ways. The first is with simple verbs (saltar, empènyer, pegar). The second is to use the construction with a verb roughly meaning "to make" plus indefinite article plus substantive (fer un salt / donar un salt / pegar un salt, donar una empenta / pegar una empenta, donar un cop / pegar un cop).

• pegar-se un toc a la barra

pegar (plural pegar-pegar, first-person possessive pegarku, second-person possessive pegarmu, third-person possessive pegarnya)

1. pheasant

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin picāre (“to smear with pitch”), from pix (“pitch”).

pegar

1. to glue (attach using glue)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• empegar

From Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), from pix (“pitch”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨ.ˈɣaɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pe.ˈɡa(ʁ)/

pegar (first-person singular present indicative pego, past participle pegado)

1. (transitive) to catch
   1. to grab, to hold
   2. to discover someone doing something
2. (transitive, reflexive) to engage in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with someone for one night or some short period of time
3. (transitive, reflexive) to fight, to engage in a physical conflict
4. (transitive, intransitive) to stick, to glue
5. (colloquial, intransitive) to catch on
6. (Brazil, transitive) to catch, to take (a transport)

   Vamos pegar um ônibus. ― Let's take a bus.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:pegar.

• (to grab): agarrar
• (to stick): colar
• (to take a transport): apanhar, tomar

• apegar

From Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), present active infinitive of picō, from pix (“pitch”). Compare English pitch.

pegar (first-person singular present pego, first-person singular preterite pegué, past participle pegado)

1. (intransitive) to stick
2. (transitive) to glue
3. (transitive) to hit

• Rule: g becomes a gu before e.

• apegar
• apego
• despegar
• pega
• pegamento
• pegamiento
• pegado
• pegajoso
• pegar ojo