trucar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾuˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾuˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Homophones: trocar (Central Catalan), trucà (except Valencian)

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, 2025

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

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

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trucar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trucar”, 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), “trucar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trucar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “trucar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Occitan trucar, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre, from Latin trūdō + -icō.

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trucar

1. to hit; to strike

• tustar

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre, from Latin trūdō + -icō.

trucar

1. to hit; to strike

• Occitan: trucar

trucar

1. to trade; to exchange

• “trucar”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 2013–2025
• “trucar2”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 2013–2025

• Homophone: trocar (Portugal)

From truco +‎ -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 Truco

• truque

• “trucar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “trucar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

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 (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

• 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, LGBTQ, of a drag queen, trans woman, etc.) to tuck (to conceal one’s penis and testicles)^[1]

• “trucar”, 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