empolvar
Spanish, verb/empolˈbaɾ/
empolvar is a Spanish verb meaning “to cover with dust or powder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does empolvar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover with dust or powder
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of empolvar
- empolvo first-person present singular
- empolvé first-person preterite singular
- empolvado participle past
- empolvando gerund
- empolvada feminine participle past
- empolvados masculine participle past
- empolvadas feminine participle past
- empolvas indicative informal present
- empolvás indicative informal present
- empolva indicative present singular
- empolvamos first-person indicative plural
- empolváis indicative plural present
- empolvan indicative plural present
- empolvaba first-person imperfect indicative
- empolvabas imperfect indicative second-person
- empolvábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- empolvabais imperfect indicative plural
- empolvaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empolvar?
- /empolˈbaɾ/
- [ẽm.polˈβ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is empolvar in Spanish?
empolvar appears about once in every 62 million words in written Spanish.
empolvar0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Spanishmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).