emboscar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.bosˈka(ʁ)/
emboscar is spelled E-M-B-O-S-C-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emboscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to ambush (to lie in wait for, or to attack)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “por de emboscada, ocultar(-se) para atacar de surpresa”.
What does emboscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ambush (to lie in wait for, or to attack)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. por de emboscada, ocultar(-se) para atacar de surpresa 2. esconder
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 emboscar
- embosco first-person present singular
- embosquei first-person preterite singular
- emboscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- emboscares infinitive second-person singular
- emboscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- emboscardes infinitive plural second-person
- emboscarem infinitive plural third-person
- emboscando gerund
- emboscados masculine participle past
- emboscada feminine participle past
- emboscadas feminine participle past
- emboscas indicative present second-person
- embosca indicative present singular
- emboscamos first-person indicative plural
- emboscais indicative plural present
- emboscam indicative plural present
- emboscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emboscar?
- Brazil /ẽ.bosˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.bosˈka(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.bosˈka(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emboscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emboscar in Portuguese?
emboscar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).