tocar

Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈka(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Syllabification: to‧car

Verb

tocar

1. (transitive) to touch

Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “tocar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈkaɾ/,
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: to‧car

Verb

tocar (first-person singular indicative present toco, past participle tocáu)

1. to touch
2. to play (an instrument)

Conjugation

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Homophones: tocà, tucà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

tocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toquí, past participle tocat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to touch
2. to feel
3. to press (a switch, button)
4. to play (a musical instrument)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• pertocar
• toc
• tocar el dos
• tocar i parar

Further reading

• “tocar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tocar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tocar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tocar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tocar, from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: to‧car

Verb

tocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toquei, past participle tocado)

1. to touch

   Synonym: tanguer

   • 1454, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 315:

     Para o qual o dito Ferrnand Dourado fezo juramento solepne aos santo euangeos en hun libro misal que tocou con suas maos

     For which said Fernando Dourado swore a solemn oath to the Holy Gospels in a missal book that he touched with his hands

2. to play (a musical instrument or a musical recording)

   Synonym: tanguer

3. (intransitive) to knock

   Synonym: petar

   Quen toca na porta? ― Who's knocking on the door?

4. to ring

   Synonym: tanguer

5. (impersonal) to be awarded; to win, obtain

   Ó que máis tarda menos lle toca (proverb) ― He who delays more gets less

6. (impersonal) to be someone's time or turn

   Tócame! ― It's my turn!

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tocadiscos

References

• “tocar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tocar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tocar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tocar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tocar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading

• “tocar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “tocar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Occitan

Alternative forms

• tochar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

tocar

1. to touch
2. to play (a musical instrument)

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: to‧car

Verb

tocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toquei, past participle tocado)

1. (transitive with em or with no preposition) to touch, to finger, to feel (tactually)

   Toquei levemente (em) seu braço ― I slighty touched his arm

   Synonyms: sentir, dedilhar, roçar, apalpar, pôr a mão

2. (figurative) to start addressing (a particular subject or issue)

   Já que você tocou nessa questão, vamos continuar ― Since you began talking about that issue, let's continue

3. to play (a musical instrument)

   Ela toca piano muito bem ― She plays the piano very well

4. to sound, jingle, to honk, to ring (a bell, alarm, horn or similar object)

   Toque a campainha! ― Ring the bell!

   Não deveríamos ter tocado o alarme. ― We shouldn't have sounded the alarm.

   Synonym: soar (alarm)

   Synonyms: badalar, bater (bell)

5. (Brazil, informal) to kick out, to expulse

   Alguém precisa tocá-lo daqui ― Someone has to kick him out from here

6. (Brazil, informal, reflexive) to become aware; to realize or perceive something

   Só me toquei depois. ― I only realized it later.

   Synonyms: ligar, dar-se conta

Usage notes

When used transitively in its most frequent sense ("to touch"), the verb tocar is typically followed by the preposition em. Despite its popularity, this addition is completely optional and doesn't alter the verb's meaning.

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tocar.

Derived terms

• tocar no assunto (idiomatic)
• tocante

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈkaɾ/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: to‧car

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Verb

tocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toqué, past participle tocado)

1. (transitive) to touch

   Toca esta tela. ― Touch this cloth.

2. (transitive) to play (a musical instrument)

   Ella toca el piano. ― She plays the piano.

3. (impersonal, intransitive) to be someone's time or turn

   Synonyms: seguir, ser el siguiente

   Ahora me toca jugar. ― Now it's my turn to play.

   le toca a él ― it's his turn

4. (impersonal, intransitive) to have to do something, be obligated to do

   Le tocó aprender hebreo. ― She had to learn Hebrew.

5. (transitive) to knock

   tocar la puerta ― to knock on the door

6. (transitive) to honk

   tocar la bocina ― to honk the horn

7. (transitive) to ring

   tocar un timbre ― to ring a doorbell

8. (transitive) to touch on (mention briefly)

   Vamos a tocar el tema de las finanzas personales. ― We're going to touch on the topic of personal finance.

9. (intransitive) to touch (affect emotionally)

   Sinceramente la película me tocó. ― To be honest, the movie touched me.

10. (transitive, baseball) to bunt

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From toca (“headscarf, wimple, kind of hat”).

Verb

tocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toqué, past participle tocado)

1. to comb or dress one's hair
2. to don a hat, scarf or other head covering

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tocar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• actor
• corta

Venetian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.

Verb

tocar

1. (transitive) to touch

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Synonyms

• tastar