trabucar

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Occitan trabucar (“to turn upside down”), from buc, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). Compare Catalan trabucar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾaβuˈkaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to confuse, to mislead
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 27:

     pensou logo en como lle poderia toler o Reyno et lo trabucar per que llo fezese perder

     he then thought about how he could take the kingdom from him and mislead him into losing it

   Synonyms: atrapallar, aturullar, confundir, enganar

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get something wrong; to mess up

   Synonyms: confundir, enganar

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “trabucar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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Spanish

Verb

trabucar (first-person singular present trabuco, first-person singular preterite trabuqué, past participle trabucado)

1. to mess up, muddle up
2. (reflexive) to get muddled up