chocar

• chucar (Somiedu, Miranda, Cuarto de los Valles)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈkaɾ/ [t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cho‧car

chocar (first-person singular indicative present choco, past participle chocáu)

1. to crash, collide
2. to dispute, fight, not get along

   Ésos choquen siempre

   Those are always fighting

3. to surprise, be surprising, to find something strange

   Choca que nun digan nada

   It's surprising that they say nothing

4. to high five

• chocante
• chocada

Onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

chocar (first-person singular present choco, first-person singular preterite choquei, past participle chocado)

1. to brood
2. to incubate (a sickness)

From choque (“crash”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

chocar (first-person singular present choco, first-person singular preterite choquei, past participle chocado)

1. to crash

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chocar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chocar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “chocar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chocar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “chocar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chocar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cloccāre, from Latin glocīre, glociāre (“to cluck”).

chocar (first-person singular present choco, first-person singular preterite choquei, past participle chocado)

1. (transitive) to brood (to keep an egg warm until it hatches)
2. (of an egg, intransitive) to hatch (to break open when a young animal emerges from it)
3. (of a creature, intransitive) to hatch (to emerge from its egg)
4. (figurative, transitive) to hatch (to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately)
5. (slang, intransitive) to linger (to spend a long time not moving or doing anything)
6. (informal, of a drink, intransitive) to become foul due to heat

From choque +‎ -ar.

chocar (first-person singular present choco, first-person singular preterite choquei, past participle chocado)

1. (pronominal) to collide (to hit one another violently)

   As aeronaves se chocaram logo depois de decolarem.

   The aircraft collided soon after they took off.

2. (usually pronominal) to collide with; to crash against (to hit violently) [with em or contra or com ‘something’]

   Só um esquiador na história conseguiu descer esta ladeira sem se chocar em nenhuma árvore.

   Only one skier in history was able to go down this hill without hitting any tree.

3. (transitive) to shock (to evoke a very negative emotional response)

   Os vídeos de decapitação do Estado Islâmico chocaram o mundo.

   The Islamic State’s decapitation videos shocked the world.

4. (pronominal) to clash (to not work well together) [with com ‘with someone/something’]

   Os imigrantes serão bem aceitos porque seus valores não se chocam com os nossos.

   The immigrants will be accepted because their values do not clash with ours.

• (to collide with one another): bater
• (to collide with): bater em/contra, atingir
• (to clash with): conflitar com

• “chocar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “chocar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “chocar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Onomatopoeic, or from French choquer. Compare English shock.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈkaɾ/ [t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cho‧car

chocar (first-person singular present choco, first-person singular preterite choqué, past participle chocado)

1. (ambitransitive) to crash

   Synonym: estrellar

2. (intransitive) to bump (into), to collide (with) [with con ‘something’]
3. (intransitive) to shock, scandalize
4. (intransitive) to crash into, to hit, to slam into, to collide with [with con ‘something’]
5. (intransitive) to annoy, to bother, to upset

• Chocar is a false friend, and does not mean "to choke". The word for "to choke", in the sense of "to choke someone", in Spanish is ahorcar, asfixiar or estrangular.

• “chocar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024