emborcar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.boʁˈka(ʁ)/
emborcar is spelled E-M-B-O-R-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese, the 166,096th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emborcar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to turn (a container), spilling its contents” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deitar de bruços”.
What does emborcar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to turn (a container), spilling its contents
- 2
colloquialto chug (a drink)
- 3
Brazilcolloquialto fall
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. deitar de bruços 2. vazar o conteúdo, deitando ou dando-lhe a volta ao recipiente contentor
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 emborcar
- emborco first-person present singular
- emborquei first-person preterite singular
- emborcado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- emborcares infinitive second-person singular
- emborcarmos first-person infinitive plural
- emborcardes infinitive plural second-person
- emborcarem infinitive plural third-person
- emborcando gerund
- emborcados masculine participle past
- emborcada feminine participle past
- emborcadas feminine participle past
- emborcas indicative present second-person
- emborca indicative present singular
- emborcamos first-person indicative plural
- emborcais indicative plural present
- emborcam indicative plural present
- emborcava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emborcar?
- Brazil /ẽ.boʁˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.bohˈka(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.boʁˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is emborcar in Portuguese?
emborcar appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).