cambar
Portuguese, verb/kɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
cambar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to jibe (to perform a jibe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “torcer a madeira”.
What does cambar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to jibe (to perform a jibe)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. torcer a madeira 2. caminhar com as pernas tortas, coxear, cambalear 3. flexionar em arco 4. efectuar uma manobra de mudança de amura durante uma navegação a favor do vento
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 cambar
- cambo first-person present singular
- cambei first-person preterite singular
- cambado participle past
- cambares infinitive second-person singular
- cambarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cambardes infinitive plural second-person
- cambarem infinitive plural third-person
- cambando gerund
- cambados masculine participle past
- cambada feminine participle past
- cambadas feminine participle past
- cambas indicative present second-person
- camba indicative present singular
- cambamos first-person indicative plural
- cambais indicative plural present
- cambam indicative plural present
- cambava first-person imperfect indicative
- cambavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cambar?
- Brazil /kɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kɐ̃ˈba(h)]
- /kɐ̃ˈba(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 cambar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cambar in Portuguese?
cambar 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).