tocaia

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Old Tupi (t)okaîa (“shack”). ==== Noun ==== tocaia f (plural tocaias) ambush (act of concealing oneself and waiting to attack by surprise) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== tocaia inflection of tocaiar: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “tocaia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “tocaia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026