topar

Asturian

Verb

topar (first-person singular indicative present topo, past participle topáu)

1. Alternative form of atopar

Conjugation

Catalan

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Homophones: topà, tupà, tupar
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topí, past participle topat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /o/

1. (transitive, intransitive) to crash
2. to run into, to come across
   • 2019 August 11, Gemma Sardà, “El meu veí el músic”, in La Vanguardia‎:

     A la ciutat podem passar anys i panys sense intercanviar ni mitja paraula amb qui topem dia per altre.

     In the city we can go ages without exchanging even half a word with those we run into every other day.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• retopar
• topada
• topadís
• topall
• topament
• topants

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• àtrop, optar, parot, partó, patró, porat, porta, portà, potra, tarpó, tropa

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈpaɾ/

Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topei, past participle topado)

1. Alternative form of atopar

Conjugation

Ladino

Verb

topar (Latin spelling)

1. to find
2. (reflexive) to be found, to be located

   Synonym: (Monastir) iscuntrar

   • 2019, Şeli GAON, “Viyaje A Andalusia - 2”, in Şalom‎:

     La maale de los djudyos se topa en el sentro de la sivdad vyeja, toda la kaleja golyendo al miskle de flores, las plasas kon las pisinas, los arvoles de portokales kon los kortijos finos avyertos para ke los turistos vijiten.

     The Jewish district is located in the center of the old city, the whole street smelling of a mixture of flowers, the plazas with the swimming pools, the orange trees with the fine open patios for the tourists to visit.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *to-od-bur, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to brew, boil”). However, compare inbhir (“mouth of a river”). Synonymous with tipra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtobar/

Noun

topar m

1. well
2. spring

Inflection

Derived terms

• toparach

Descendants

• Irish: tobar
• Scottish Gaelic: tobar

Mutation

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Spanish topar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: to‧par

Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topei, past participle topado)

1. (transitive) to come across, encounter

   Synonyms: achar, encontrar

2. (transitive, colloquial, Portugal) to understand

   Synonym: perceber

3. (transitive, colloquial, Brazil) to accept (an invitation, a challenge etc.)

   Synonym: aceitar

Conjugation

Anagrams

• optar, parto, porta, potra, prato, rapto, trapo, tropa

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound made by two objects knocking into one another.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈpaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: to‧par

Verb

topar (first-person singular present topo, first-person singular preterite topé, past participle topado)

1. (transitive) to come across, encounter

   Synonyms: encontrar, hallar

2. (transitive) to knock against, hit, strike, touch

   Synonyms: chocar, tocar

3. (transitive, colloquial, Mexico, El Salvador) to finish (a videogame)

   ¿Ya topaste el nuevo juego que compraste?

   Did you already finish the new game you bought?

4. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to confront (someone)

   Synonym: confrontar

   Topá al maestro si no te quiere subir las notas.

   Confront the teacher if he doesn't want to raise your grades.

5. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador) to grope (To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually); to engage in heavy petting.

   Había un pareja topándose entre ellos en el bus.

   There was a couple groping each other on the bus.

   Me topé a mi novio en mi casa.

   I groped my boyfriend at my house.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Venetian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

topar

1. (transitive) to fall

Conjugation

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