trigar

Inherited from Old Catalan trigar, from Latin trīcārī (“dally, shuffle, be evasive”). Compare Occitan trigar, French tricher (“to cheat”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾiˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾiˈɣaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

trigar (first-person singular present trigo, first-person singular preterite triguí, past participle trigat)

1. (intransitive) to take a long time, to be long
2. (intransitive) to be late
3. (transitive) to take (a certain amount of time)

• The main difference between trigar and durar when used transitively is that the former signifies some event that one has to wait for, while the latter signifies an ongoing action.

• durar

• triga
• trigança
• triganer

• “trigar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Suevic *þrīhan or Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þreihan), from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną (“to urge”).

• IPA^(key): /tɾiˈɣaɾ/

trigar (first-person singular present trigo, first-person singular preterite triguei, past participle trigado)

1. (intransitive) to hurry; to hasten; to rush; to speed up

   Synonym: bulir

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trigar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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trigar

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Inherited from Late Latin trīcāre, from Latin trīcārī.

• Hyphenation: tri‧gar

trigar (first-person singular present trigo, first-person singular preterite triguei, past participle trigado)

1. (reflexive, obsolete) to bustle, to hurry
2. (reflexive) to get tangled up, to meddle

• “trigar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “trigar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “trigar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “trigar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025