chapar
Portuguese, verb/ʃaˈpa(ʁ)/
chapar is spelled C-H-A-P-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 77,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chapar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cover with metal plates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr ou segurar com chapa”.
What does chapar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover with metal plates
- 2
Brazilslangto stone (to intoxicate, especially with narcotics)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr ou segurar com chapa 2. estatelar 3. ficar entorpecido devido ao uso de entorpecentes
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 chapar
- chapo first-person present singular
- chapei first-person preterite singular
- chapado participle past
- chapares infinitive second-person singular
- chaparmos first-person infinitive plural
- chapardes infinitive plural second-person
- chaparem infinitive plural third-person
- chapando gerund
- chapados masculine participle past
- chapada feminine participle past
- chapadas feminine participle past
- chapas indicative present second-person
- chapa indicative present singular
- chapamos first-person indicative plural
- chapais indicative plural present
- chapam indicative plural present
- chapava first-person imperfect indicative
- chapavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chapar?
- Brazil /ʃaˈpa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃaˈpa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chapar in Portuguese?
chapar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).