descamar
Portuguese, verb/des.kaˈma(ʁ)/
descamar is spelled D-E-S-C-A-M-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descamar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scale (remove the scales of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar as escamas de”.
What does descamar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scale (remove the scales of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar as escamas de
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 descamar
- descamo first-person present singular
- descamei first-person preterite singular
- descamado participle past
- descamares infinitive second-person singular
- descamarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descamardes infinitive plural second-person
- descamarem infinitive plural third-person
- descamando gerund
- descamados masculine participle past
- descamada feminine participle past
- descamadas feminine participle past
- descamas indicative present second-person
- descama indicative present singular
- descamamos first-person indicative plural
- descamais indicative plural present
- descamam indicative plural present
- descamava first-person imperfect indicative
- descamavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descamar?
- Brazil /des.kaˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.kaˈma(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.kaˈma(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descamar in Portuguese?
descamar appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).