bajular
Portuguese, verb/ba.ʒuˈla(ʁ)/
bajular is spelled B-A-J-U-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 70,861st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bajular is a Portuguese verb meaning “to flatter, fawn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ser adulador com fim interesseiro”.
What does bajular mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flatter, fawn
- 2
to adulate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ser adulador com fim interesseiro 2. lisonjear de modo servil 3. carregar nos ombros às costas volumes pesados
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 bajular
- bajulo first-person present singular
- bajulei first-person preterite singular
- bajulado participle past
- bajulares infinitive second-person singular
- bajularmos first-person infinitive plural
- bajulardes infinitive plural second-person
- bajularem infinitive plural third-person
- bajulando gerund
- bajulados masculine participle past
- bajulada feminine participle past
- bajuladas feminine participle past
- bajulas indicative present second-person
- bajula indicative present singular
- bajulamos first-person indicative plural
- bajulais indicative plural present
- bajulam indicative plural present
- bajulava first-person imperfect indicative
- bajulavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bajular?
- Brazil /ba.ʒuˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ba.ʒuˈla(h)]
- /ba.ʒuˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bajular
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bajular in Portuguese?
bajular appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).