cozinhar
Portuguese, verb/ku.zĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
cozinhar is spelled C-O-Z-I-N-H-A-R (8 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,176th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cozinhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cook (food), to bake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “preparar alimentos ao calor (geralmente fogo), principalmente dentro de líquidos”.
What does cozinhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cook (food), to bake
- 2
to fire (heat (pottery, etc.))
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. preparar alimentos ao calor (geralmente fogo), principalmente dentro de líquidos 2. adiar por meio de engano
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 cozinhar
- cozinho first-person present singular
- cozinhei first-person preterite singular
- cozinhado participle past
- cozinhares infinitive second-person singular
- cozinharmos first-person infinitive plural
- cozinhardes infinitive plural second-person
- cozinharem infinitive plural third-person
- cozinhando gerund
- cozinhados masculine participle past
- cozinhada feminine participle past
- cozinhadas feminine participle past
- cozinhas indicative present second-person
- cozinha indicative present singular
- cozinhamos first-person indicative plural
- cozinhais indicative plural present
- cozinham indicative plural present
- cozinhava first-person imperfect indicative
- cozinhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cozinhar?
- Brazil /ku.zĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ku.zĩˈj̃a(h)]
- Brazil /ko.zĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cozinhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cozinhar in Portuguese?
cozinhar appears 15 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).