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pescar.

to fish (try to catch fish)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/pesˈka(ʁ)/Brazil[pesˈka(h)]Brazil/pesˈka(ɾ)/São-Paulo/peʃˈka(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  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. to understand

    informal
  5. to doze, to slumber (to sleep very briefly and unintentionally)

    Brazil · idiomatic · intransitive
Where this word comes from

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

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.