barbear
Portuguese, verb/baʁ.beˈa(ʁ)/
barbear is spelled B-A-R-B-E-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 29,633rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Barbear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shave (to remove someone’s or one’s own facial hair)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar a barba a”.
What does barbear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shave (to remove someone’s or one’s own facial hair)
Não gosto de me barbear, prefiro que um profissional me barbeie.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cortar a barba a 2. fazer a barba a si próprio
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 barbear
- barbeio first-person present singular
- barbeei first-person preterite singular
- barbeado participle past
- barbeares infinitive second-person singular
- barbearmos first-person infinitive plural
- barbeardes infinitive plural second-person
- barbearem infinitive plural third-person
- barbeando gerund
- barbeados masculine participle past
- barbeada feminine participle past
- barbeadas feminine participle past
- barbeias indicative present second-person
- barbeia indicative present singular
- barbeamos first-person indicative plural
- barbeais indicative plural present
- barbeiam indicative plural present
- barbeava first-person imperfect indicative
- barbeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce barbear?
- Brazil /baʁ.beˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [baɦ.beˈa(h)]
- /baɾ.beˈa(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 barbear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is barbear in Portuguese?
barbear appears 1.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).