zurcir

• surcir

From Latin sarciō. Cognate with Portuguese cerzir and Spanish zurcir.

• IPA^(key): [θuɾˈθiɾ], (western) [suɾˈsiɾ]

zurcir (first-person singular present zurzo, first-person singular preterite zurcín, past participle zurcido)

1. (transitive, sewing) to darn; to mend (repair by stitching with thread or yarn)
   • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     o rebes
     bin fazer a un cordobes
     y a outro sibillano
     abofe sinon me engano
     ca lle'surziron o ynbes
     pola treta
     que figeron y a gineta
     sobre duas burras pardas
     o sacaron sobre albardas
     e diante ua tronpeta

     The contrary thing I saw done to one Cordobese and one Sevillian kids; certainly, If I'm not mistaken, they darned them in the underside because of the trickery they did: they mounted them on two brown donkeys on packsaddles and paraded them, and ahead a trumpet

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zurcir”, 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), “zurcir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “zurcir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• surcir (obsolete)

From surcir (“to darn, to mend”).

• IPA^(key): /θuɾˈθiɾ/ [θuɾˈθiɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /suɾˈsiɾ/ [suɾˈsiɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: zur‧cir
• Homophone: (Latin America) surcir

zurcir (first-person singular present zurzo, first-person singular preterite zurcí, past participle zurcido)

1. (transitive, sewing) to darn; to mend (repair by stitching with thread or yarn)
2. (Spain, colloquial) to screw

   ¡Que te zurzan! ― Screw you!

• “zurcir”, 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