rezar

Meaning

1. (intransitive) to pray (to talk to a god)
2. (transitive) to pray (to recite a given prayer)
3. (transitive) to celebrate (to perform mass); the object is almost always missa (“mass”)

Hyphenated as

re‧zar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁeˈza(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese rezar, from Latin recitāre (“to recite”), from re- + citō (“to call forth”). Doublet of recitar, a borrowing.