cacarejar
Portuguese
Etymology
Onomatopoeic + -ejar (verb suffix for repetitive actions)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.ka.ɾeˈʒa(ʁ)/ [ka.ka.ɾeˈʒa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ka.ka.ɾeˈʒa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ka.ka.ɾeˈʒa(ʁ)/ [ka.ka.ɾeˈʒa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ka.ka.ɾeˈʒa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.kɐ.ɾɨˈʒaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.kɐ.ɾɨˈʒa.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: ca‧ca‧re‧jar
Verb
cacarejar (first-person singular present cacarejo, first-person singular preterite cacarejei, past participle cacarejado)
- (intransitive) to cackle (of a hen, to emit its cry)
Conjugation
Conjugation of cacarejar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cacarejar.
Further reading
- “cacarejar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “cacarejar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026