tancar

Borrowed from Occitan tancar.

• IPA^(key): /tanˈka(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: tan‧car
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

tancar

1. to close

   Synonyms: zarrar, trancar, clucar, cllucar

• “tancar”, in Diccionario ortografico de l’aragonés (seguntes la PO de l’EFA)‎^[1], Zaragoza: EDACAR, 2023, →ISSN

Borrowed from Occitan tancar. First attested in the 12th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təŋˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [taŋˈkaɾ]

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• Homophone: tancà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

tancar (first-person singular present tanco, first-person singular preterite tanquí, past participle tancat)

1. (transitive) to close

   Antonym: obrir

   tancar amb pany i clau ― to close with lock and key

2. (transitive) to turn off

   tancar la llum ― to turn off the light

3. (transitive) to shut down (a business etc.)

   tancar un establiment ― to shut down/close an establishment

• → Sardinian: tancare, tancài, tancare, tuncare

• “tancar”, 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
• “tancar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tancar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Occitan estancar (“to stop up”), from Vulgar Latin *stanticāre (“to make stagnant”), from Latin stāns (“standing”).^[1]

tancar

1. to close

   Antonym: obrir

• tancat

• → Catalan: tancar
  • → Sardinian: tancare, tancài, tancare, tuncare

tancar (first-person singular present tanco, first-person singular preterite tanquei, past participle tancado)

1. alternative spelling of tankar

Clipping of estancar.

• IPA^(key): /tanˈkaɾ/ [t̪ãŋˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tan‧car

tancar (first-person singular present tanco, first-person singular preterite tanqué, past participle tancado)

1. (El Salvador, Honduras, colloquial, rustic) to stop the flow of a liquid, especially blood from a wound

   El médico logró tancar la hemorragia rápidamente.

   The doctor managed to stop the bleeding quickly.

• “tancar”, 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