trucar

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

trucar (first-person singular present truco, past participle trucat)

  1. to knock, to ring (at the door)
  2. to call, to ring on the telephone

Conjugation

Synonyms


Galician

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Occitan trucar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þrukjaną (to press on).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾuˈkaɾ/

Verb

trucar (first-person singular present truco, first-person singular preterite truquei, past participle trucado)

  1. to bang head with head (for example, the rams during a fight)
  2. to knock
  3. to charge
  4. (figuratively) to argue

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • turrar

Derived terms

References

  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. trocar.

Occitan

Verb

trucar

  1. to hit; to strike

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms


Spanish

Etymology

From truco + -ar

Verb

trucar (first-person singular present truco, first-person singular preterite truqué, past participle trucado)

  1. to tune up, soup up (modify a motor vehicle)
  2. to rig

Conjugation

  • c becomes qu before e.

    Derived terms

    • tucaje
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