embromar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.bɾoˈma(ʁ)/
embromar is spelled E-M-B-R-O-M-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written Portuguese, the 193,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Embromar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to beat around the bush (to delay doing or talking about something difficult or unpleasant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “enrolar, confundir”.
What does embromar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to beat around the bush (to delay doing or talking about something difficult or unpleasant)
- 2
to deceive, to trick
- 3
to promise something but not accomplish it
- 4
to joke, to play
- 5
to walk slowly
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. enrolar, confundir
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 embromar
- embromo first-person present singular
- embromei first-person preterite singular
- embromado participle past
- embromares infinitive second-person singular
- embromarmos first-person infinitive plural
- embromardes infinitive plural second-person
- embromarem infinitive plural third-person
- embromando gerund
- embromados masculine participle past
- embromada feminine participle past
- embromadas feminine participle past
- embromas indicative present second-person
- embroma indicative present singular
- embromamos first-person indicative plural
- embromais indicative plural present
- embromam indicative plural present
- embromava first-person imperfect indicative
- embromavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce embromar?
- Brazil /ẽ.bɾoˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.bɾoˈma(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.bɾoˈma(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is embromar in Portuguese?
embromar appears about once in every 47 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).