topar

topar (first-person singular indicative present topo, past participle topáu)

1. alternative form of atopar

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tuˈpa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [toˈpa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [toˈpaɾ]
• Homophones: topà, tupà, tupar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topí, past participle topat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. (ambitransitive) to crash
2. to run into, to come across
   • 2019 August 11, Gemma Sardà, “El meu veí el músic”, in La Vanguardia‎^[2]:

     A la ciutat podem passar anys i panys sense intercanviar ni mitja paraula amb qui topem dia per altre.

     In the city we can go ages without exchanging even half a word with those we run into every other day.

• “topar”, 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
• “topar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “topar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “topar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• àtrop, optar, parot, partó, patró, porat, porta, portà, potra, tarpó, tropa

• IPA^(key): /toˈpaɾ/

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topei, past participle topado)

1. alternative form of atopar

topar

1. to find
2. (reflexive) to be found, to be located

   Synonym: (Monastir) iscuntrar

   • 2019, Şeli GAON, “Viyaje A Andalusia - 2”, in Şalom‎^[3]:

     La maale de los djudyos se topa en el sentro de la sivdad vyeja, toda la kaleja golyendo al miskle de flores, las plasas kon las pisinas, los arvoles de portokales kon los kortijos finos avyertos para ke los turistos vijiten.

     The Jewish district is located in the center of the old city, the whole street smelling of a mixture of flowers, the plazas with the swimming pools, the orange trees with the fine open patios for the tourists to visit.

From Proto-Celtic *to-od-bur, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to brew, boil”).^[1] However, compare inbhir (“mouth of a river”). Synonymous with tipra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtobar/

topar m

1. well
2. spring

• toparach

• Irish: tobar
• Manx: çhibbyr
• Scottish Gaelic: tobar

Onomatopoeic. Compare Spanish topar.

• Hyphenation: to‧par

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topei, past participle topado)

1. (transitive) to come across, encounter

   Synonyms: achar, encontrar

2. (transitive, colloquial, Portugal) to understand

   Synonym: perceber

3. (transitive, colloquial, Brazil) to accept (an invitation, a challenge etc.)

   Synonym: aceitar

• optar, parto, porta, potra, prato, rapto, trapo, tropa

Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound made by two objects knocking into one another.

• IPA^(key): /toˈpaɾ/ [t̪oˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: to‧par

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topé, past participle topado)

1. (transitive) to come across, encounter

   Synonyms: encontrar, hallar

2. (transitive) to knock against, hit, strike, touch

   Synonyms: chocar, tocar

3. (transitive, colloquial, video games, Mexico, El Salvador) to finish (a videogame)

   ¿Ya topaste el nuevo juego que compraste?

   Did you already finish the new game you bought?

4. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to confront (someone)

   Synonym: confrontar

   Topá al maestro si no te quiere subir las notas.

   Confront the teacher if he doesn't want to raise your grades.

5. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to grope (To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually); to engage in heavy petting.

   Había un pareja topándose entre ellos en el bus.

   There was a couple groping each other on the bus.

   Me topé a mi novio en mi casa.

   I groped my boyfriend at my house.

• “topar”, 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

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topar

1. (transitive) to fall

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.