quicar
Portuguese, verb
quicar is spelled Q-U-I-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,814th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quicar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bounce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tomar impulsão (após chocar-se com uma superfície); propelir-se; propulsar-se”.
What does quicar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto bounce
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tomar impulsão (após chocar-se com uma superfície); propelir-se; propulsar-se
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 quicar
- quico first-person present singular
- quiquei first-person preterite singular
- quicado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- quicares infinitive second-person singular
- quicarmos first-person infinitive plural
- quicardes infinitive plural second-person
- quicarem infinitive plural third-person
- quicando gerund
- quicados masculine participle past
- quicada feminine participle past
- quicadas feminine participle past
- quicas indicative present second-person
- quica indicative present singular
- quicamos first-person indicative plural
- quicais indicative plural present
- quicam indicative plural present
- quicava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to quicar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quicar in Portuguese?
quicar appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).