pencar

Catalan

Etymology

From penca +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [pəŋˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peŋˈkaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [peŋˈka]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Homophone: pencà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

pencar (first-person singular present penco, first-person singular preterite penquí, past participle pencat); root stress: (Northern) /e̞/; (Balearic, Central) /ɛ/; (Northwestern, Valencia) /e/

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to work

Conjugation

    Central Catalan conjugation of pencar (first conjugation, c-qu alternation)

infinitive			pencar
gerund			pencant
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		pencat		pencada
		plural		pencats		pencades
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	penco	penques	penca	penquem	penqueu	penquen
	imperfect	pencava	pencaves	pencava	pencàvem	pencàveu	pencaven
	future	pencaré	pencaràs	pencarà	pencarem	pencareu	pencaran
	preterite	penquí	pencares	pencà	pencàrem	pencàreu	pencaren
	conditional	pencaria	pencaries	pencaria	pencaríem	pencaríeu	pencarien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	penqui	penquis	penqui	penquem	penqueu	penquin
	imperfect	penqués	penquessis	penqués	penquéssim	penquéssiu	penquessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	penca	penqui	penquem	penqueu	penquin
	negative (no)	—	no penquis	no penqui	no penquem	no penqueu	no penquin

Further reading

• “pencar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pencar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “pencar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pencar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Anagrams

• aprenc

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ar

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pənˈt͡ʃar/ [pəɲˈt͡ʃar]
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: pen‧car

Verb

pencar

1. to scatter; to disperse

Affixed terms

• berpencaran
• memencar
• pencaran

Further reading

• “pencar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Northern Kurdish

The spelling of this entry has been normalized according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:Northern Kurdish entry guidelines or recent spelling standards of the language.

Noun

pencar m

1. (Hakkari) alternative form of pincar

References

• Rhea, Samuel A. (1872–1880), “Brief Grammar and Vocabulary of the Kurdish Language of the Hakari District”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 10, page 148b