(Brazil, transitive) to poke (to jab with a pointed object such as a finger or a stick)
(Brazil, colloquial, transitive) to poke (to notify another user)
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ku.tuˈka(ʁ)/
Etimologia (Inglese)
Etymology tree
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kutuk
Old Tupi kutuk
Proto-Italic *-āzi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old Galician-Portuguese -ar
Portuguese -ar
Portuguese cutucar
Adapted borrowing of Old Tupi kutuk (“to pierce”) + -ar. The social media sense is a semantic loan from English poke.