pencar

Catalan

Etymology

From penca +‎ -ar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəŋˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [peŋˈkaɾ]
• Homophone: pencà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

pencar (first-person singular present penco, first-person singular preterite penquí, past participle pencat)

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to work

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• aprenc

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Northern Kurdish

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

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