# cagar
## Asturian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɡaɾ/ [kaˈɣ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -ɡaɾ
* Hyphenation: ca‧gar

### Verb

cagar
* to shit
* (reflexive) to shit involuntarily, one's self, to fear a lot
    Cágome cuando la oyo berrameI shit myself when I hear her scream at me
* (vulgar) to tell someone off
    ¡Toi fartu, cago pa ti!I'm done, fuck you!
* (Parres) to hit someone with malice

#### Derived terms

* cagar centelles
* cagar el nisu
* cagar per sí
* cagar la berza
* meca
* cagala

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəˈɣa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kaˈɣaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Audio (Barcelona):(file)

### Verb

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguí, past participle cagat)
* (intransitive, vulgar) to shit
* (pronominal, vulgar) to shit involuntarily, in public, etc.
* (transitive, vulgar) to shit out

#### Derived terms

* caga tió
* cagacalces
* cagadora
* cagadubtes
* cagaferro
* cagalló
* caganer
* caganiu
* cagarada
* cagarina
* cagarro
* caguera

#### Related terms

* cagat
* concagar

### Further reading

* “cagar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cagar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cagar, from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-. Compare Portuguese, Asturian, Spanish, and Catalan cagar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɣaɾ/, /kaˈħaɾ/

### Verb

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguei, past participle cagado)
* (vulgar, intransitive) to shit
* (vulgar, intransitive) to tell someone off, exclamation of rejection
    Vai cagar! ― Go s yourself!
* (vulgar, transitive) to ruin, to spoil
* (vulgar, pronominal) to shit oneself (to be very scared)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* cagalla
* cagallón

#### Related terms

* caca

### References

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay cagar, from Old Javanese cagĕr (“to guarantee, ensure”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *gar, *cgar, *cgaːr (“to fence, to enclose”).
* The sense of reserve, preserve is semantic loan from Javanese ꦕꦒꦂ (cagar, “preservation”), from the same Old Javanese cagĕr (“to guarantee, to ensure”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃa.ɡar/
* Rhymes: -ɡar, -ar, -r
* Hyphenation: ca‧gar

### Noun

cagar (plural cagar-cagar)
* guarantee, pledge, security
* advance payment, down payment
    Synonyms: panjar, uang muka

#### Derived terms

* cagaran
* dicagarkan
* mencagarkan

### Noun

cagar (plural cagar-cagar)
* reserve, preserve
    Synonym: lindungan

#### Derived terms

* dicagarkan
* mencagarkan
* pencagaran
* cagar alam
* cagar biosfer
* cagar budaya
* cagar ikan
* cagar nasional
* cagar sumber daya

### References

* ↑ H. L. Shorto (2006) A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary‎, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC

### Further reading

* “cagar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

cagar
* Romanization of ꦕꦒꦂ

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin cacāre.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

cagar
* (vulgar) to shit

#### Conjugation
## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɡaɾ/
* Rhymes: -aɾ

### Verb

cagar
* to shit

#### Descendants

* Galician: cagar
* Portuguese: cagar

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "cagar"

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cagar, from Latin cacāre, from a Proto-Indo-European *kakka-. Compare Galician, Asturian, and Spanish cagar.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɡa(ʁ)/ [kaˈɡa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɡa(ʁ)/ [kaˈɡa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kaˈɡa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kaˈɡa(ʁ)/ [kaˈɡa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɡa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɡaɾ/ [kɐˈɣaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɡaɾ/ [kɐˈɣaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɡa.ɾi/ [kɐˈɣa.ɾi]
* Hyphenation: ca‧gar

### Verb

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite caguei, past participle cagado)
* (vulgar, intransitive) to shit; to defecate
    Synonyms: (formal) defecar, arriar o calhau
* (vulgar, slang, figurative, pronominal) to shit oneself (to be very scared)
    Caguei-me todo na montanha-russa.I shat myself on the rollercoaster.
* (vulgar, slang, figurative, intransitive) to get lucky
    Synonyms: ter sorte, tirar a sorte grande
* (intransitive, vulgar, figurative) to ignore [with em ‘someone/something’]
    Casgaste completamente para a mensagem que te mandei.You completely ignored the message I sent you.
    Ela cagou para mim.She didn't give a shit about me.
* (intransitive, vulgar, figurative) not to give a shit (to really not care) [with para]
    Se ele não quer ir à festa, o problema é dele. Pessoalmente, tou-me a cagar!If he doesn't want to go to the party, that's his own problem. Personally, I don't give a shit!
    O stor tá-se a cagar para os novos alunos.The prof doesn't give a shit about the new students.
* (intransitive, vulgar, Brazil) to fuck up; to botch; to screw up; to crap up (to do something incorrectly) [with em]

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Derived terms

* cagaço
* cagado

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish cocur, cocar (“consultation, (secret) discussion, confabulation; act of consulting, conferring, planning”), from com + cor.

### Noun

cagar m (genitive singular cagair, plural cagairean)
* verbal noun of cagair
* whisper
* secret
    Synonym: rùn
* dear, darling
    Trobhad, a chagair. ― Come, dear.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cocur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish cagar, from Latin cacāre, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root *kakka-. Compare English cack.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɡaɾ/ [kaˈɣ̞aɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: ca‧gar

### Verb

cagar (first-person singular present cago, first-person singular preterite cagué, past participle cagado)
* (vulgar) to shit
    Synonyms: defecar, (informal) descomer, hacer aguas mayores
    Voy a cagarme ― I am going to shit (myself)
* (vulgar) to tell someone off, exclamation of rejection
    ¡Anda a cagar! ― Go fuck yourself!
    ¡Vete a cagar! ― Go fuck yourself!
* (colloquial) to bust
* (colloquial) to get busted
* (colloquial) to ruin something; to screw
* (intransitive, Chile, colloquial) to fail
* (transitive, Chile) to cheat someone
* (transitive, Spain, Mexico, colloquial) to make a mistake
    Synonym: equivocarse
    ¡No la cagues! ― Don't ruin it!
* (reflexive, vulgar) to shit oneself, crap oneself (defecate in one's clothes)
* (reflexive, vulgar) to shit oneself (be extremely frightened)
* (reflexive, vulgar) fuck (used to express extreme anger, surprise, joy, shock or to show a lot of disrespect)

#### Usage notes

* When used to express anger (or even joy, shock, surprise), a common expression is "me cago en la leche", or "me cago en la puta", which can be translated as "fuck this!" or "fuck this shit!" or "holy fuck!". A similar construction can be used when expressing anger or disrespect directed at someone or something, for example ¡Me cago en mi jefe! (Fuck my boss!), ¡Me cago en tu opinión! (Fuck your opinion!) ¡Me cago en todo! (Fuck it all!). In addition, an innumerable number of creative variations can be attested which have the same meaning ¡Me cago en el mar!, ¡Me cago en la mierda!, ¡Me cago en Dios!, ¡Me cago en tu puta madre! etc.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* cagando cerillas
* cagando hostias
* cagar dinero
* cagar el palo
* cagarla
* cágate lorito
* cagatintas
* me cago en la leche; me cago en la mar (see also synonyms)
* que te cagas

#### Related terms

* caca
* cagadera
* cagadero
* cagado
* cagarse
* cagón

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: kagar

### Further reading

* “cagar”, 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