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Spanish
Etymology
Reduplication of apachar from Classical Nahuatl pahpātzoā (“to bruise, mash, dint”), a reduplication of synonymous pātzoā (whence Spanish apachar).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /apapaˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧pa‧pa‧char
Verb
apapachar (first-person singular present apapacho, first-person singular preterite apapaché, past participle apapachado)
- (Mexico, Honduras) to cuddle
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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