pinicar
Portuguese, verb/pi.niˈka(ʁ)/
pinicar is spelled P-I-N-I-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pinicar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to peck, to pinch, to nip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “beliscar”.
What does pinicar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto peck, to pinch, to nip
- 2
Brazilto prick, to sting
- 3
Brazilcolloquialto run away
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. beliscar 2. ferir com o bico 3. irritar a pele (se diz de roupas ou de grama, por exemplo) 4. arrumar a casa
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 pinicar
- pinico first-person present singular
- piniquei first-person preterite singular
- pinicado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- pinicares infinitive second-person singular
- pinicarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pinicardes infinitive plural second-person
- pinicarem infinitive plural third-person
- pinicando gerund
- pinicados masculine participle past
- pinicada feminine participle past
- pinicadas feminine participle past
- pinicas indicative present second-person
- pinica indicative present singular
- pinicamos first-person indicative plural
- pinicais indicative plural present
- pinicam indicative plural present
- pinicava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pinicar?
- Brazil /pi.niˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pi.niˈka(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pinicar in Portuguese?
pinicar appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).