cazar
Spanish, verb/kaˈθaɾ/
cazar is a Spanish verb meaning “to hunt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Buscar o seguir a las aves, fieras y otros animales para cogerlos y matarlos”.
What does cazar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hunt
- 2
to catch (a ball, said especially of the goalkeeper)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Buscar o seguir a las aves, fieras y otros animales para cogerlos y matarlos. 2. Adquirir con destreza alguna cosa difícil o que no se esperaba. 3. Prender, cautivar la voluntad de alguno con halagos o engaños. 4. Poner tirante la escota, hasta que el puño de la vela quede lo más cerca posible de la borda.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cazar
- cazo first-person present singular
- cacé first-person preterite singular
- cazado participle past
- c-z alternation
- cazando gerund
- cazada feminine participle past
- cazados masculine participle past
- cazadas feminine participle past
- cazas indicative informal present
- cazás indicative informal present
- caza indicative present singular
- cazamos first-person indicative plural
- cazáis indicative plural present
- cazan indicative plural present
- cazaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cazabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cazábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cazabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cazar?
- /kaˈθaɾ/
- [kaˈθaɾ]
- /kaˈsaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cazar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cazar in Spanish?
cazar appears 5.5 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).