chafurdar
Portuguese, verb/ʃa.fuʁˈda(ʁ)/
chafurdar is spelled C-H-A-F-U-R-D-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 100,600th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chafurdar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wallow (in mud); to paddle (walk in shallow water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “rolar na água, lama, neve, poeira, lixo etc por brincadeira”.
What does chafurdar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wallow (in mud); to paddle (walk in shallow water)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. rolar na água, lama, neve, poeira, lixo etc por brincadeira 2. falar mal doutrem
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 chafurdar
- chafurdo first-person present singular
- chafurdei first-person preterite singular
- chafurdado participle past
- chafurdares infinitive second-person singular
- chafurdarmos first-person infinitive plural
- chafurdardes infinitive plural second-person
- chafurdarem infinitive plural third-person
- chafurdando gerund
- chafurdados masculine participle past
- chafurdada feminine participle past
- chafurdadas feminine participle past
- chafurdas indicative present second-person
- chafurda indicative present singular
- chafurdamos first-person indicative plural
- chafurdais indicative plural present
- chafurdam indicative plural present
- chafurdava first-person imperfect indicative
- chafurdavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chafurdar?
- Brazil /ʃa.fuʁˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃa.fuɦˈda(h)]
- /ʃa.fuɾˈda(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 chafurdar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chafurdar in Portuguese?
chafurdar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).