emboscar

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

emboscar (first-person singular present embosco, first-person singular preterite embosquí, past participle emboscat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to ambush

• emboscada

• “emboscar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “emboscar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “emboscar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “emboscar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Late Latin imboscāre, from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”).

emboscar (first-person singular present embosco, first-person singular preterite embosquei, past participle emboscado)

1. to ambush (to lie in wait for, or to attack)

• emboscada

• IPA^(key): /embosˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: em‧bos‧car

emboscar (first-person singular present embosco, first-person singular preterite embosqué, past participle emboscado)

1. (transitive) to ambush

• “emboscar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10