urubuzar
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From urubu (“vulture”) + -z- + -ar. Analogy to vultures' behaviour of constantly gazing and flying over their food.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: u‧ru‧bu‧zar
Verb
[edit]urubuzar (first-person singular present urubuzo, first-person singular preterite urubuzei, past participle urubuzado)
- (Brazil, transitive) to observe, usually in the intent of overhearing an information
- (Brazil, transitive) to look daggers
- (Brazil, transitive, slang) to jinx (to bring bad luck to)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of urubuzar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “urubuzar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “urubuzar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024