singar

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singar

1. sewing machine

From Middle High German singen.

singar

1. to sing

• Present tense:

  I singhe (I sing)

  du singast (you sing) (singular)

  er singat (he sings)

  bar singan (we sing)

  iar singat (you sing) (plural)

  se singan (they sing)

From the verb singlar (“to scull a ship”), from French cingler (“to navigate”).

• IPA^(key): /sinˈɡaɾ/ [sĩŋˈɡaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sin‧gar

singar (first-person singular present singo, first-person singular preterite singué, past participle singado)

1. (Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, vulgar) to have sex
2. (Cuba) to annoy, to be an asshole
3. to scull a boat from the stern

• “singar”, 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