zicar
Portuguese, verb/ziˈka(ʁ)/
zicar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to inflict bad luck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does zicar mean in English?
verb
- 1
slangto inflict bad luck
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of zicar
- zico first-person present singular
- ziquei first-person preterite singular
- zicado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- zicares infinitive second-person singular
- zicarmos first-person infinitive plural
- zicardes infinitive plural second-person
- zicarem infinitive plural third-person
- zicando gerund
- zicados masculine participle past
- zicada feminine participle past
- zicadas feminine participle past
- zicas indicative present second-person
- zica indicative present singular
- zicamos first-person indicative plural
- zicais indicative plural present
- zicam indicative plural present
- zicava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zicar?
- Brazil /ziˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ziˈka(h)]
- /ziˈka(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 zicar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zicar in Portuguese?
zicar appears about once in every 65 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).