petar

petar (plural petars)

1. Obsolete form of petard.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     hoist with his own petar

• “petar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

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• IPA^(key): /peˈtaɾ/ [peˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧tar

petar

1. (impersonal) to interest, to feel like

   nun me peta dir

   I don't feel like going

• “petar” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

From pet +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peˈtaɾ]

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petar (first-person singular present peto, first-person singular preterite petí, past participle petat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

1. (intransitive) to explode, to burst
2. (intransitive, computing, informal, of a program) to crash
3. (intransitive, pronominal) to fart

• petada
• petaner

• → Spanish: petar

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

Attested since circa 1800. From peto (“woodpecker”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /peˈtaɾ/

petar (first-person singular present peto, first-person singular preterite petei, past participle petado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to knock, to impact

   Quen peta na porta?

   Who is knocking on the door?

2. (transitive) to churn
3. (intransitive, figurative) to want

   —Vai facer a cama! —Non me peta!

   "Make your bed!" "I don't want to!"

   —Por que? —Porque me peta.

   "Why?" "Because I want to."

• bater
• (to want to do): apetecer

• petada (“knock”)
• petador (“knocker”)
• peteiro (“beak”)
• petelo (“small mallet”)
• petelar (“to knock gently and repeatedly”)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “petar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “petar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “petar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “petar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.tar]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.t̪ar]

petar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of petō

Borrowed from Catalan petar.

• IPA^(key): /peˈtaɾ/ [peˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧tar

petar (first-person singular present peto, first-person singular preterite peté, past participle petado)

1. (colloquial) to explode, blow up, let off, set off

   Synonyms: explotar, estallar

2. (colloquial, transitive) to please, gratify, content

   Synonym: agradar

3. to fill up; cram; be packed

   Anoche la discoteca estaba petada.

   Last night the disco was packed.

4. (reflexive, computing) crash (a malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable)

   Se ha petado Windows, tengo que reiniciar el ordenador.

   Windows has crashed, I have to restart the computer.

• “petar”, 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

• parte

petar

1. present indicative of peta

• Petra, paret, repat

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petar

1. (transitive) to attach, stick

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