batucar
Portuguese, verb/ba.tuˈka(ʁ)/
batucar is spelled B-A-T-U-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 90,796th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Batucar is a Portuguese verb meaning “drum (to beat a drum)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “percutir repetitivamente, ritmicamente, produzindo som; geralmente diretamente com as mãos”.
What does batucar mean in English?
verb
- 1
drum (to beat a drum)
- 2
drum (to beat with a rapid succession of strokes)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. percutir repetitivamente, ritmicamente, produzindo som; geralmente diretamente com as mãos
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 batucar
- batuco first-person present singular
- batuquei first-person preterite singular
- batucado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- batucares infinitive second-person singular
- batucarmos first-person infinitive plural
- batucardes infinitive plural second-person
- batucarem infinitive plural third-person
- batucando gerund
- batucados masculine participle past
- batucada feminine participle past
- batucadas feminine participle past
- batucas indicative present second-person
- batuca indicative present singular
- batucamos first-person indicative plural
- batucais indicative plural present
- batucam indicative plural present
- batucava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce batucar?
- Brazil /ba.tuˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ba.tuˈka(h)]
- /ba.tuˈka(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 batucar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is batucar in Portuguese?
batucar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).