pescar
Meaning
- to fish (try to catch fish)
- to remove an object from a body of water
- to fish (attempt to find an object by searching among other objects)
- (informal) to understand
- (Brazil,idiomatic,intransitive) to doze, to slumber (to sleep very briefly and unintentionally)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pes鈥ar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pes藞ka(蕘)/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pescar, from Latin pisc膩r墨. Compare Galician pescar.
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