dourar
Portuguese, verb/do(w)ˈɾa(ʁ)/
dourar is spelled D-O-U-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 45,243rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dourar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to gild, gold-plate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar cor de ouro”.
What does dourar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gild, gold-plate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar cor de ouro 2. revestir a ouro ou a folha de ouro 3. tornar brilhantes os metais amarelos 4. tornar algo agradável e sedutor, de modo a iludir
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 dourar
- douro first-person present singular
- dourei first-person preterite singular
- dourado participle past
- dourares infinitive second-person singular
- dourarmos first-person infinitive plural
- dourardes infinitive plural second-person
- dourarem infinitive plural third-person
- dourando gerund
- dourados masculine participle past
- dourada feminine participle past
- douradas feminine participle past
- douras indicative present second-person
- doura indicative present singular
- douramos first-person indicative plural
- dourais indicative plural present
- douram indicative plural present
- dourava first-person imperfect indicative
- douravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dourar?
- Brazil /do(w)ˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [do(ʊ̯)ˈɾa(h)]
- /do(w)ˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dourar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dourar in Portuguese?
dourar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).