cucar
Portuguese, verb/kuˈka(ʁ)/
cucar is spelled C-U-C-A-R (5 letters). Cucar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cuckoo (to make the call of a cuckoo)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cantar (o cuco)”.
What does cucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cuckoo (to make the call of a cuckoo)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cantar (o cuco) 2. andar 3. retirar-se 4. pôr-se a andar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cucar
- cuco first-person present singular
- cuquei first-person preterite singular
- cucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- cucares infinitive second-person singular
- cucarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cucardes infinitive plural second-person
- cucarem infinitive plural third-person
- cucando gerund
- cucados masculine participle past
- cucada feminine participle past
- cucadas feminine participle past
- cucas indicative present second-person
- cuca indicative present singular
- cucamos first-person indicative plural
- cucais indicative plural present
- cucam indicative plural present
- cucava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cucar?
- Brazil /kuˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kuˈka(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cucar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.