pescar

From Latin piscārī.

pescar (first-person singular indicative present pesco, past participle pescáu)

1. to fish

• pexe

• peixcar

Inherited from Latin piscārī, a verb based on piscis (“fish”, noun).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəsˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pesˈkaɾ]

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, first-person singular preterite pesquí, past participle pescat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (ambitransitive) to fish
2. (transitive, figurative) to land; to catch

   pescar la grip ― to catch the flu

• “pescar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pescar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “pescar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pescar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• IPA^(key): /pesˈkaɾ/

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, first-person singular preterite pesquei, past participle pescado)

1. to fish

   Non se pescan troitas con bragas enxoitas (proverb) ― You won't fish trouts with dry pants

2. (figurative) to catch, grasp; capture

   Synonyms: cachar, capturar, coller

   • 1908, Xesús Rodríguez López, Gallegadas, page 135:

     Amáñanse poñéndose moitos refaixos e cruzan os panos por diante o seo; todo pra aparentar máis gordas e rebustas: en vez de poñer as carnes ó aire, tápa-nas percurando aparecer que elas teñen moitas, aínda que falten pola casa. Dempois andan azoroñando a carón dos mozos i ós que queren pescar físga-nos polo rabiño do ollo. Si eles se fan de rogar entón carexan as mozas astra que miran pra elas

     They dress up with many underskirts and they cross the clothes before their bosom; all that so they seem fatter and more robust: instead of showing the flesh they cover it attempting to look as if they have much, even if it lacks at home. After this they wander around the boys, and the ones they want to fish, they catch them by the corner of the eye. If they play hard to get, then they speak together loudly till the boys look at them

• “pescar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “pescar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pescar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pescar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pescar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pescar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pescar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan pescar, from Latin piscārī.

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pescar

1. to fish

• peis
• pescador

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

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• Hyphenation: pes‧car
• Homophone: (central, southern Portugal) piscar

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, first-person singular preterite pesquei, past participle pescado)

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)

   Synonym: moscar

• păscar

Inherited from Latin piscārius.

pescar m (plural pescari)

1. fisher, fisherman

Inherited from Latin piscārī.

• IPA^(key): /pesˈkaɾ/ [pesˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pes‧car

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, first-person singular preterite pesqué, past participle pescado)

1. to fish
2. to angle
3. (colloquial) to get

   Synonym: coger

4. (colloquial) to catch

   Synonym: captar

5. (colloquial) to mind, pay attention to (a person)

   Synonym: tomar en cuenta

6. (colloquial) to search, or fish for information
7. (colloquial) to screw, to get action (have sex)

• “pescar”, 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