pescar

Meaning

1. to fish (try to catch fish)
2. to remove an object from a body of water
3. to fish (attempt to find an object by searching among other objects)
4. (informal) to understand
5. (Brazil, idiomatic, intransitive) to doze, to slumber (to sleep very briefly and unintentionally)

Concepts

fish

🐟

angle

seine

Synonyms

catar

Translations

pescar

🐟

pêcher

🐟

fischen

🐟

vissen

🐟

pescar

🐟

pescare

🐟

hengelen

angeln

ψαρεύω

pescar

faire la pêche

snoeken

balığa çıkmak

صَادَ

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pesˈka(ʁ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: piscor

Cognate with Galician: pescar

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pescar, from Latin piscārī. Compare Galician pescar.