puxar

• apuxar

From Latin pulsāre.

puxar (first-person singular indicative present puxo, past participle puxáu)

1. to push, pull

   Synonyms: empuxar, emburriar

   Tamos puxando'l carru pela cuesta

   We are pushing the cart down the slope

2. to make an effort, force

   Synonyms: esforciar, aforciar

   La muyer puxó muncho pa parir

   The woman made a big effort to give birth

   • 1744, Bruno Cepeda, Glorias de Asturias (poem):

     Hay xabalinos tan grandes,
     Que puestos é na palanca,
     Apuxen per sostenelos,
     Homes de bona puxanza.

     There are boars so big,
     that when they are on a crane,
     they [have to] make an effort to hold them
     men of good strength

   • 1863, Amable González Abín, La Candelera‎^[1]:

     Pa estruyanos la collecha tuvieren que puxar munchu

     To mash our [apple] harvest, they had to make an effort

   • 1900, Rufino Martínez Vázquez, Nochi-güena‎^[2]:

     Y la probe anciana na camina ' nferma puxa por alzase y apreta los puños

     And the poor old woman, ill in bed, makes an effort to stand up and clenches her fists

3. to be able to hold a weight

   Synonyms: romanar, cargar

   • 1947, Luis Aurelio Álvarez, Versos espardíos‎^[3], Hoy, día del emigrante:

     la romería y el ramu que non pudimos puxar

     and the party and the bouquet, which we couldn't carry

4. to cheer
5. to complain quietly, whine

   Synonyms: ḥipar, lloricar

• puxu
• puxanza
• ¡puxa!
• ¡adepuxa!
• empuxar
• espuxar
• puxante
• sobrepuxar

• “puxar”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “puxar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese puxar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pulsāre (“to push”), frequentative of pellō (“I drive, I strike”). Cognate with Portuguese puxar, Asturian puxar, Spanish pujar and English push.

• IPA^(key): [puˈʃaɾ]

puxar (first-person singular present puxo, first-person singular preterite puxei, past participle puxado)

1. to push (with movement)

   Synonyms: apuxar, empurrar, empuxar

2. to pull

   Synonyms: tirar, turrar

3. to drive, force, impel
4. (archaic) to throw
   • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 322:

     Ano de LV, sábado á noyte, que eran viinte dias do dito mes de setenbro, aas noue horas da noyte, foy conbatido por força de armas os paaços et curral do bispo d'Ourense et a hua ora, sobre médea noyte, foy entrado a poder de armas et non foy ende nehuún ome morto, saluo foron feridos dos do conçello ata noue ou des personas et dos do curral tres o quatro de seetadas, et en outro dia, o domingo, combateron a torre bella con Roy de Caldellas et con Johán de Canba et outro omee et puxaron de çima da torre hun canto e deu en hua perna Afonso da Proua et morreu dela.

     Year of 55, Saturday night, twenty days of said month of September, at nine hours at night; the palace and yard of the Bishop of Ourense was combatted forcibly with weapons, and at certain time, around midnight, it was forcibly penetrated; no man was killed then, but nine or ten persons of the Council were wounded and of the yard three or four, of arrow shots; and the other day, sunday, they combatted the old tower with Roi de Caldelas and with Xoán de Camba and with another man, and they threw from the top of the tower a stone which hit Afonso da Proba in a leg, and he died of it

   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 340:

     et que, yndo él fogindo, lle lançara duas lanças e hua que lle dera por lo braço e llo pasara et a outra que lle puxeran [puxaran] por lle dar por lo ventre, et que, quando a vira vir, que a tomara por lo ferro, viindo por lo ayre, et que cortara a maao

     and that, while he was fleeing, they threw two spears: one that hit him in the arm and pierced it and another one that they threw for hitting his abdomen, and that, while he saw it coming, he took it by the spearhead, while coming through the air, and it cut his hand

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “puxar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “puxar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puxar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “puxar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “puxar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puxar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese puxar, from Latin pulsāre (“to push”). Doublet of pulsar, a learned borrowing. Compare Galician puxar and Spanish pujar.

• Hyphenation: pu‧xar

puxar (first-person singular present puxo, first-person singular preterite puxei, past participle puxado)

1. to pull (to apply force to something so it comes towards one)

   Antonyms: empurrar, empuxar

2. to drag (to pull along a surface)

   Synonyms: arrastar, tracionar

3. to draw (pull out) a weapon

   Synonym: sacar

4. (Brazil) to initiate (to cause to begin) interaction with someone else

   Puxou papo com os vizinhos.

   He initiated a chat with the neighbours.

   A gente puxava briga com qualquer um.

   We initiated fights with anyone.

5. (Brazil, informal) to take after; to inherit traits in appearance or behaviour

   Synonym: sair

   Maria puxou seu cabelo castanho de seu pai.

   Mary inherited her brown hair from her father.

6. (Brazil, slang) to smoke marijuana

   Synonym: dar tapa na macaca

• →⇒ Dutch: boegseren
  • → German: bugsieren
    • → Polish: buksować
  • →⇒ Russian: букси́р (buksír) (ultimately)
    • → Armenian: բուքսիր (bukʻsir)
    • → Lithuanian: buksỹras
    • → Persian: بکسل (boksol)
    • → Ukrainian: букси́р (buksýr)
  • → Russian: букси́ровать (buksírovatʹ)
    • → Ukrainian: буксирува́ти (buksyruváty)

• “puxar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “puxar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026