calar
Portuguese, verb/kaˈla(ʁ)/
calar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shut up (to stop talking)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “silenciar-se”.
What does calar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shut up (to stop talking)
- 2
to shut up (to stop someone from talking or something from making noise)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. silenciar-se 2. deixar de emitir som 3. penetrar fundo, gravar 4. parar e emitir fala, som ou ruído pela boca
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 calar
- calo first-person present singular
- calei first-person preterite singular
- calado participle past
- calares infinitive second-person singular
- calarmos first-person infinitive plural
- calardes infinitive plural second-person
- calarem infinitive plural third-person
- calando gerund
- calados masculine participle past
- calada feminine participle past
- caladas feminine participle past
- calas indicative present second-person
- cala indicative present singular
- calamos first-person indicative plural
- calais indicative plural present
- calam indicative plural present
- calava first-person imperfect indicative
- calavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calar?
- Brazil /kaˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kaˈla(h)]
- /kaˈla(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 calar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calar in Portuguese?
calar appears 18 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).