tascar
Portuguese, verb/tasˈka(ʁ)/
tascar is spelled T-A-S-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese, the 195,116th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tascar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scutch (to remove the bast from a flax plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “na preparação do linho separar a parte lenhosa da fibra”.
What does tascar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scutch (to remove the bast from a flax plant)
- 2
informalto nibble
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. na preparação do linho separar a parte lenhosa da fibra
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 tascar
- tasco first-person present singular
- tasquei first-person preterite singular
- tascado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- tascares infinitive second-person singular
- tascarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tascardes infinitive plural second-person
- tascarem infinitive plural third-person
- tascando gerund
- tascados masculine participle past
- tascada feminine participle past
- tascadas feminine participle past
- tascas indicative present second-person
- tasca indicative present singular
- tascamos first-person indicative plural
- tascais indicative plural present
- tascam indicative plural present
- tascava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tascar?
- Brazil /tasˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tasˈka(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tascar in Portuguese?
tascar appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).