• chucar(Somiedu, Miranda, Cuarto de los Valles)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈkaɾ/[t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

chocar (first-person singular indicative presentchoco,past participlechocáu)

1. tocrash,collide
2. todispute,fight, not get along

   Ésos choquen siempre

   Those are always fighting

3. tosurprise, besurprising, to find something strange

   Choca que nun digan nada

   It's surprising that they say nothing

4. tohigh five

• chocante
• chocada

Onomatopoeic, from*clocca, voice of a brood hen.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

chocar (first-person singular presentchoco,first-person singular preteritechoquei,past participlechocado)

1. tobrood
2. toincubate (a sickness)

Fromchoque(“crash”) +‎-ar.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

chocar (first-person singular presentchoco,first-person singular preteritechoquei,past participlechocado)

1. tocrash

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chocar”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chocar”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “chocar”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy,2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chocar”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “chocar” inDicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chocar”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Inherited fromVulgar Latin*cloccāre, fromLatinglocīre,glociāre(“to cluck”).

chocar (first-person singular presentchoco,first-person singular preteritechoquei,past participlechocado)

1. (transitive) tobrood(to keep an egg warm until it hatches)
2. (of an egg, intransitive) tohatch(to break open when a young animal emerges from it)
3. (of a creature, intransitive) tohatch(to emerge from its egg)
4. (figurative, transitive) tohatch(to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately)
5. (slang, intransitive) tolinger(to spend a long time not moving or doing anything)
6. (informal, of a drink, intransitive) to becomefoul due to heat

Fromchoque +‎-ar.

chocar (first-person singular presentchoco,first-person singular preteritechoquei,past participlechocado)

1. (pronominal) tocollide(to hit one another violently)

   As aeronaves sechocaram logo depois de decolarem.

   The aircraftcollided soon after they took off.

2. (usually pronominal) tocollide with; tocrash against(to hit violently) [withemorcontraorcom‘something’]

   Só um esquiador na história conseguiu descer esta ladeira sem sechocar em nenhuma árvore.

   Only one skier in history was able to go down this hill withouthitting any tree.

3. (transitive) toshock(to evoke a very negative emotional response)

   Os vídeos de decapitação do Estado Islâmicochocaram o mundo.

   The Islamic State’s decapitation videosshocked the world.

4. (pronominal) toclash(to not work well together)[withcom‘with someone/something’]

   Os imigrantes serão bem aceitos porque seus valores não sechocam com os nossos.

   The immigrants will be accepted because their values do notclash with ours.

• (to collide with one another):bater
• (to collide with):baterem/contra,atingir
• (to clash with):conflitarcom

• “chocar” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “chocar”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
• “chocar”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025

Onomatopoeic, or fromFrenchchoquer. CompareEnglishshock.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈkaɾ/[t͡ʃoˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes:-aɾ
• Syllabification:cho‧car

chocar (first-person singular presentchoco,first-person singular preteritechoqué,past participlechocado)

1. (ambitransitive) tocrash

   Synonym:estrellar

2. (intransitive) tobump (into), tocollide (with)[withcon‘something’]
3. (intransitive) toshock,scandalize
4. (intransitive) tocrash into, tohit, toslam into, tocollide with[withcon‘something’]
5. (intransitive) toannoy, tobother, toupset

• Chocar is afalse friend, and does not mean "tochoke". The word for "to choke", in the sense of "to choke someone", in Spanish isahorcar,asfixiar orestrangular.

• “chocar”, inDiccionario 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

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