desencarnar
Portuguese, verb/de.zẽ.kaʁˈna(ʁ)/
desencarnar is spelled D-E-S-E-N-C-A-R-N-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 164,273rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desencarnar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to disincarnate (to become a bodiless soul or spirit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “morrer; o espírito que se liberta do corpo através da morte e passa para uma outra dimensão que escapa aos…”.
What does desencarnar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disincarnate (to become a bodiless soul or spirit)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. morrer; o espírito que se liberta do corpo através da morte e passa para uma outra dimensão que escapa aos nossos sentidos.
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 desencarnar
- desencarno first-person present singular
- desencarnei first-person preterite singular
- desencarnado participle past
- desencarnares infinitive second-person singular
- desencarnarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desencarnardes infinitive plural second-person
- desencarnarem infinitive plural third-person
- desencarnando gerund
- desencarnados masculine participle past
- desencarnada feminine participle past
- desencarnadas feminine participle past
- desencarnas indicative present second-person
- desencarna indicative present singular
- desencarnamos first-person indicative plural
- desencarnais indicative plural present
- desencarnam indicative plural present
- desencarnava first-person imperfect indicative
- desencarnavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desencarnar?
- Brazil /de.zẽ.kaʁˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zẽ.kaɦˈna(h)]
- Brazil /de.zĩ.kaʁˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desencarnar in Portuguese?
desencarnar appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).