jugar

Inherited from Old Catalan jugar, from Latin iocārī. Compare Occitan jogar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒuˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒuˈɣaɾ]

• Audio:

  (file)

jugar (first-person singular present jugo, first-person singular preterite juguí, past participle jugat)

1. (intransitive) to play
2. (intransitive) to play [with a ‘a game’]

   Jugar a lladres i serenos ― to play cops and robbers

3. (intransitive) to gamble
4. (transitive, reflexive) to bet (something)

   (idiomatic) Jugar-s'hi les garrofes ― to risk one's means of living (literally, “to bet one's carobs on something”)

• jugada
• jugador
• juganer
• juguera
• juguesca

• joc

• “jugar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jugar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “jugar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “jugar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• djugar, djuguar

From Old Spanish jugar, from Latin iocārī.

• IPA^(key): [ʒuˈɡar]

jugar (Latin spelling)

1. to play

From jug +‎ -ar or from Latin iugārius, from iugum (“yoke”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒuˈɡar/

jugar m or n (feminine singular jugară, masculine plural jugari, feminine and neuter plural jugare)

1. (regional, of oxen) of a yoke, good or fitting for a yoke

jugar m (plural jugari)

1. (regional) a yoked oxen

• jug
• înjuga

Inherited from Latin iocārī. Compare Portuguese jogar and, more distantly, English joke.

• IPA^(key): /xuˈɡaɾ/ [xuˈɣ̞aɾ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ju‧gar

jugar (first-person singular present juego, first-person singular preterite jugué, past participle jugado)

1. to play
2. to risk, take a chance
3. (Louisiana) to play (an instrument)

   Synonyms: tocar, tañer

• “jugar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014