pinchar

Alternative forms

• pinchardar

Verb

pinchar

1. to recognize, to know (someone)

Etymology

Unknown.^[1] Perhaps a metathesis of the synonym chimpar, itself hypothetically from an earlier *plimpar, onomatopoeic. Compare Irish plimp (“sudden fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pinˈt͡ʃaɾ/

Verb

pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinchei, past participle pinchado)

1. to take down

   Synonyms: abater, deitar, tirar

2. to cut down a tree
3. to throw down
4. to cause to jump
5. (transitive) to jump over; to overleap
6. (intransitive) to jump

   Synonyms: brincar, chimpar, choutar, saltar

References

• “pinchar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pinchar” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “pinchar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

Most likely from a crossing of punchar (itself a variant of punzar, from Vulgar Latin *punctiāre, from Latin punctus), and picar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pinˈt͡ʃaɾ/, [pĩnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]

Verb

pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinché, past participle pinchado)

1. to puncture, prick, pierce
2. (animals, needle) to sting
3. (computation) to click
4. (colloquial) to flirt
5. (colloquial) to get flirted
6. (telephony) to call up by telephone and suspend before a conversation is initiated in order to make the receiver call back
7. (telephony, colloquial) putting some tool for hearing in secret private conversation by phone; eavesdropping
8. (intransitive, colloquial) to slip up (fail)
9. (colloquial) to fuck
10. (colloquial) to wind up, pester

Further reading

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