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)

Hyphenated as

pes‧car

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pesˈka(ʁ)/

Etymology

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