trucar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾuˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [tɾuˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Homophone: trocar

trucar (first-person singular present truco, first-person singular preterite truquí, past participle trucat)

1. to hit

   Synonym: tustar

2. to knock, to ring (at the door)
3. to call, to ring on the telephone

• “trucar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “trucar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Perhaps from Old Occitan trucar,[1] from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.

• IPA^(key): /tɾuˈkaɾ/

trucar (first-person singular present truco, first-person singular preterite truquei, past participle trucado)

1. to bang head with head (for example, the rams during a fight)
2. to knock
3. to charge
4. (figurative) to argue

• turrar

• retrucar
• trucada

• truque

• “trucar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “trucar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “trucar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “trucar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “trucar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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trucar

1. to hit; to strike

• tustar

From truque +‎ -ar.

trucar (first-person singular present truco, first-person singular preterite truquei, past participle trucado)

1. (intransitive, card games) to make the first bid (in the game of truque)

• truque

• “trucar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “trucar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

From truca +‎ -ar.

trucar (first-person singular present truco, first-person singular preterite truquei, past participle trucado)

1. (intransitive, film) to do trick photography

• “trucar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.

• truquear (Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico)

From truco +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /tɾuˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾuˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tru‧car

trucar (first-person singular present truco, first-person singular preterite truqué, past participle trucado)

1. to tune up, soup up (modify a motor vehicle)
2. to rig
3. (reflexive, LGBT, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) to tuck (to conceal one’s penis and testicles)[1]

• “trucar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014