descalçar
Portuguese, verb/des.kawˈsa(ʁ)/
descalçar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-L-Ç-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 111,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descalçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to take off (a shoe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does descalçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take off (a shoe)
- 2
to take off one's shoes
Os muçulmanos descalçam-se antes de entrar numa mesquita.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of descalçar
- descalço first-person present singular
- descalcei first-person preterite singular
- descalçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- descalçares infinitive second-person singular
- descalçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descalçardes infinitive plural second-person
- descalçarem infinitive plural third-person
- descalçando gerund
- descalçados masculine participle past
- descalçada feminine participle past
- descalçadas feminine participle past
- descalças indicative present second-person
- descalça indicative present singular
- descalçamos first-person indicative plural
- descalçais indicative plural present
- descalçam indicative plural present
- descalçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descalçar?
- Brazil /des.kawˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.kaʊ̯ˈsa(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.kawˈsa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descalçar in Portuguese?
descalçar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).