chamuscar

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese chamuscar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from chama (“flame”), perhaps blended with charamusca, faísca, "spark, hot ash".^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃamusˈkaɾ/

Verb

chamuscar (first-person singular present chamusco, first-person singular preterite chamusquei, past participle chamuscado)

1. to singe (to burn slightly)
2. to singe (to remove the hair by passing it over a flame)
   • 1391, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 106:

     e que nos diades mays uos e todas uosas uozes para senpre de cada hun anos hun porco chamoscado, que seja sen maliça, con pan e con vino, segundo huso e costume da comarca

     and you and your successors shall give us, each year and forever, a singed pork, free of any malice, with bread and wine, as it is customary in the shire

3. to scorch (to become scorched)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chamuscar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “Chamuscar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chamuscar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “chamuscar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chamuscar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “chamuscar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chamuscar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chamuscar, ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese chama, perhaps influenced by faiscar or enfuscar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cha‧mus‧car

Verb

chamuscar (first-person singular present chamusco, first-person singular preterite chamusquei, past participle chamuscado)

1. to singe (to burn slightly)

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese chamuscar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃamusˈkaɾ/ [t͡ʃa.musˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cha‧mus‧car

Verb

chamuscar (first-person singular present chamusco, first-person singular preterite chamusqué, past participle chamuscado)

1. (transitive) to scorch, to singe

Further reading

• “chamuscar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10