picar

From Hindi [Term?].

picar (plural picars)

1. (India, obsolete) A retail dealer; an intermediate dealer or broker.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “picar”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• apicar

From picu (“beak”), the meaning "to nibble" derived from the meaning of "little bit".

• IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/ [piˈkaɾ]

picar (first-person singular indicative present pico, past participle picáu)

1. to knock (on the door)

   Picanon a la puerta va un ratín

   They knocked on the door a while back

2. to itch (to feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched)

   Synonyms: pruyir, comer, rascar

3. to sting
4. (figurative) to annoy

   Synonyms: plizcar, pizcañar, fadiar

5. to take a bait
6. to fall for something

   Nun piques, nin que nun ye verdá

   Don't fall for it, it's not even true

7. to chop, cut wood

   Synonym: baltar

8. to crumble, mince, chop in pieces

   Synonyms: esfacer, esmenuzar, espebillar, rillar, frayar

9. to dig

   Synonyms: cavar, escavar, carcovar

10. to use their beak (a bird)

    Synonym: espicotiar

11. to nibble

    Synonyms: llambiotar, llambicar, plizcar

12. to have a snack
13. to be spicy (a meal)
14. to heat (the sun)

    Synonyms: atarascar, calcar, cascar

15. to mine
16. to grind a millstone (for a finer grind)
17. to carve (stone)

    Synonyms: llabrar, escantilar, esconciar

18. to sharpen

    Synonyms: clavuñar, afilar

19. to make an incision in the chestnut shell before roasting it

    Synonym: mozcar

20. to deflower (take someone's virginity)
21. (games) to touch the opponent's ball (in a game of marbles, guá)
22. (reflexive) to rot (food)

    Synonyms: apodrecer, empodrecer, apodrentar

23. (reflexive) to decay (teeth)

    Synonym: rucar

24. (reflexive) to get annoyed, upset

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

Inherited from Old Catalan picar, from Vulgar Latin *pīccāre, itself a derivative of Latin pīcus or of onomatopoeic origin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [piˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [piˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piquí, past participle picat)

1. (of an animal or insect) to bite, sting
2. to peck (strike with the beak or bill)
3. to prick, pierce
4. to sting, burn; to be spicy or sour
5. to mince, chop
6. to strike

   picar a la porta ― to knock on the door

   picar de mans ― to clap hands

7. to push (a button)

   han picat al timbre ― someone rang the bell

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

• pichar

From pico (“beak”).

• IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piquei, past participle picado)

1. to mince

   Synonym: pitar

2. to chop

   Hai que picar esa leña. ― Somebody [probably you] should chop that firewood.

3. to bite
4. to sting

   Synonym: aguillar

5. (of milk, wine) to sour, embitter
6. (of the sea) to become choppy
7. to itch
8. (of food) to be hot, spicy
9. to hammer (a blade, for sharpening it)

   Synonym: carabuñar

10. to nibble

• picada
• picadela
• pico
• repicar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “picar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “picar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “picar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “picar”, 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), “picar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “picar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “picar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *pīccāre, itself a derivative of Latin pīcus or of onomatopoeic origin.

• IPA^(key): /piˈka/

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picar

1. to hit; to strike
2. (of an insect or the like) to sting

   Synonym: fissar

From Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to puncture”), itself from *pīccus (“woodpecker”), variant of Latin pīcus, or perhaps a Frankish borrowing.

• Hyphenation: pi‧car

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piquei, past participle picado)

1. to sting (pierce with a small, sharp point)
2. to punch (to make holes)

   picar o bilhete ― to punch the ticket

3. to mince; to shred (chop into small pieces)

   picar a carne ― to mince the meat

4. (informal) to provoke

From pico (“beak, point”), or maybe from Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”), through a Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to sting, strike”). Compare English pique, French piquer, and Portuguese picar.

• IPA^(key): /piˈkaɾ/ [piˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pi‧car

picar (first-person singular present pico, first-person singular preterite piqué, past participle picado)

1. (intransitive) to itch (to feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched)

   una tela que pica ― an itchy fabric

2. to sting
3. to chop
4. to bite
5. (cooking) to mince, to dice
6. to stab; to wound
7. (colloquial) to snack; to nibble; to have a bite

   me apetece picar algo ― I fancy a bite to eat

8. to rot; to decay; to eat away; to rust
9. to pique

   Synonym: despertar

10. to crush (ice)
11. (intransitive) to sting or be pungent to the lips or tongue, be spicy or, of a candy, very sour

    Este chile pica mucho. ― This chili is very hot.

12. (slang, Mexico) to sexually penetrate, fuck
13. (reflexive) to get angry, get annoyed, take offence
14. (reflexive) to turn sour
15. (reflexive, Mexico, with con) to get addicted, fascinated, enraptured
16. (intransitive) to bounce

• → Belizean Creole: pik

• “picar”, 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

From the onomatopoeic *pikk- (“hook, point”) +‎ -ar. Compare Italian impiccare.

• IPA^(key): /piˈkar/

picar

1. (ambitransitive) to hang, dangle

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