empalar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.paˈla(ʁ)/
empalar is spelled E-M-P-A-L-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese, the 135,347th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empalar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to impale (put to death by piercing with a pale)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aplicar a empalação a”.
What does empalar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impale (put to death by piercing with a pale)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aplicar a empalação a 2. meter em 3. espetar; enfiar
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 empalar
- empalo first-person present singular
- empalei first-person preterite singular
- empalado participle past
- empalares infinitive second-person singular
- empalarmos first-person infinitive plural
- empalardes infinitive plural second-person
- empalarem infinitive plural third-person
- empalando gerund
- empalados masculine participle past
- empalada feminine participle past
- empaladas feminine participle past
- empalas indicative present second-person
- empala indicative present singular
- empalamos first-person indicative plural
- empalais indicative plural present
- empalam indicative plural present
- empalava first-person imperfect indicative
- empalavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empalar?
- Brazil /ẽ.paˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.paˈla(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.paˈla(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 empalar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empalar in Portuguese?
empalar appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).