abandalhar
Portuguese, verb/a.bɐ̃.daˈʎa(ʁ)/
abandalhar is spelled A-B-A-N-D-A-L-H-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abandalhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to corrupt, to pervert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar-se bandalho”.
What does abandalhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to corrupt, to pervert
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar-se bandalho 2. sem pudor 3. indigno 4. vil
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abandalhar
- abandalho first-person present singular
- abandalhei first-person preterite singular
- abandalhado participle past
- abandalhares infinitive second-person singular
- abandalharmos first-person infinitive plural
- abandalhardes infinitive plural second-person
- abandalharem infinitive plural third-person
- abandalhando gerund
- abandalhados masculine participle past
- abandalhada feminine participle past
- abandalhadas feminine participle past
- abandalhas indicative present second-person
- abandalha indicative present singular
- abandalhamos first-person indicative plural
- abandalhais indicative plural present
- abandalham indicative plural present
- abandalhava first-person imperfect indicative
- abandalhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abandalhar?
- Brazil /a.bɐ̃.daˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.bɐ̃.daˈʎa(h)]
- /a.bɐ̃.daˈʎa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is abandalhar in Portuguese?
abandalhar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).