curar
Portuguese, verb/kuˈɾa(ʁ)/
curar is spelled C-U-R-A-R (5 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Curar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cure; to heal (restore to health)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “restabelecer a saúde de”.
What does curar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cure; to heal (restore to health)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. restabelecer a saúde de 2. livrar da doença 3. sarar
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 curar
- curo first-person present singular
- curei first-person preterite singular
- curado participle past
- curares infinitive second-person singular
- curarmos first-person infinitive plural
- curardes infinitive plural second-person
- curarem infinitive plural third-person
- curando gerund
- curados masculine participle past
- curada feminine participle past
- curadas feminine participle past
- curas indicative present second-person
- cura indicative present singular
- curamos first-person indicative plural
- curais indicative plural present
- curam indicative plural present
- curava first-person imperfect indicative
- curavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce curar?
- Brazil /kuˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kuˈɾa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to curar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is curar in Portuguese?
curar appears 12 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).