trabucar

trabar +‎ -ucar

• IPA^(key): /tɾabuˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾa.β̞uˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tra‧bu‧car

trabucar (first-person singular indicative present trabuco, past participle trabucáu)

1. to get something wrong; to confuse

   Synonyms: confundir, entrabucar, enquivocar

2. (also reflexive) to stumble over words
   • 1668, Unknown, Melecina n'Uviedo‎^[1]:

     Blas: Todu el mundu, mió queridu,
     se principió a trabucar,
     la Xusticia cara a cara
     non se atrebe gorgutar

     Blas: Everyone, my dear,
     began to stutter
     Justice doesn't dare speak
     face to face.

   • 1925, Luis Martínez de la Vega, Llargos Amoríos‎^[2] (poem):

     Por munchu que te falo,
     Mio llengua non se cansa
     De trabucar palabres
     faciendot' allabanza.

     No matter how much I speak to you,
     My tongue never tires
     of stumbling over words
     in praise of you.

• “trabucar”, 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), “trabucar”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

From tra- +‎ buc +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾə.βuˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tɾə.buˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾa.buˈkaɾ]

trabucar (first-person singular present trabuco, first-person singular preterite trabuquí, past participle trabucat)

1. (transitive) to tip over, overturn, upset

   Synonym: capgirar

2. (figurative, transitive) to confuse (words or sounds), to transpose (sounds or letters)
3. (reflexive) to stumble over one's words, speak confusedly

• “trabucar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• IPA^(key): /tɾabuˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾa.β̞uˈkɑɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: tra‧bu‧car

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

1. (transitive) to confuse, to mislead

   Synonyms: atrapallar, aturullar, confundir, enganar

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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

2. (pronominal) to get something wrong; to mess up

   Synonyms: confundir, enganar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “trabucar”, 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), “trabucar”, 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), “trabucar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “trabucar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “trabucar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From tra- +‎ buque +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /tɾabuˈkaɾ/ [t̪ɾa.β̞uˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tra‧bu‧car

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

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

• “trabucar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025