pescar
Portuguese, verb/pesˈka(ʁ)/
pescar is spelled P-E-S-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,758th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pescar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fish (try to catch fish)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “apanhar na água (o peixe ou outro animal aquático)”.
What does pescar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fish (try to catch fish)
- 2
to remove an object from a body of water
- 3
to fish (attempt to find an object by searching among other objects)
- 4
informalto understand
- 5
Brazilto doze, to slumber (to sleep very briefly and unintentionally)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. apanhar na água (o peixe ou outro animal aquático) 2. segurar, apanhar ou capturar algo 3. ter pequenos cochilos enquanto sentado ou em pé; dormir levemente ou por um período pequeno de tempo 4. na Região Nordeste, obter de modo externo e sem estudo a resposta em provas ou exames
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 pescar
- pesco first-person present singular
- pesquei first-person preterite singular
- pescado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- pescares infinitive second-person singular
- pescarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pescardes infinitive plural second-person
- pescarem infinitive plural third-person
- pescando gerund
- pescados masculine participle past
- pescada feminine participle past
- pescadas feminine participle past
- pescas indicative present second-person
- pesca indicative present singular
- pescamos first-person indicative plural
- pescais indicative plural present
- pescam indicative plural present
- pescava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pescar?
- Brazil /pesˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pesˈka(h)]
- /pesˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pescar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pescar in Portuguese?
pescar appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).