cobiçar
Portuguese, verb/ko.biˈsa(ʁ)/
cobiçar is spelled C-O-B-I-Ç-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,841st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cobiçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to covet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ter cobiça de alguma coisa ou pessoa”.
What does cobiçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to covet
- 2
to wish for
- 3
to aspire to
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ter cobiça de alguma coisa ou pessoa 2. desejar ardentemente 3. ambicionar
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 cobiçar
- cobiço first-person present singular
- cobicei first-person preterite singular
- cobiçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- cobiçares infinitive second-person singular
- cobiçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cobiçardes infinitive plural second-person
- cobiçarem infinitive plural third-person
- cobiçando gerund
- cobiçados masculine participle past
- cobiçada feminine participle past
- cobiçadas feminine participle past
- cobiças indicative present second-person
- cobiça indicative present singular
- cobiçamos first-person indicative plural
- cobiçais indicative plural present
- cobiçam indicative plural present
- cobiçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cobiçar?
- Brazil /ko.biˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ko.biˈsa(h)]
- /ko.biˈsa(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 cobiçar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cobiçar in Portuguese?
cobiçar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).