empalhar
Portuguese, verb/ẽ.paˈʎa(ʁ)/
empalhar is spelled E-M-P-A-L-H-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese, the 183,862nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empalhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stuff (to preserve a dead animal for display)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does empalhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stuff (to preserve a dead animal for display)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of empalhar
- empalho first-person present singular
- empalhei first-person preterite singular
- empalhado participle past
- empalhares infinitive second-person singular
- empalharmos first-person infinitive plural
- empalhardes infinitive plural second-person
- empalharem infinitive plural third-person
- empalhando gerund
- empalhados masculine participle past
- empalhada feminine participle past
- empalhadas feminine participle past
- empalhas indicative present second-person
- empalha indicative present singular
- empalhamos first-person indicative plural
- empalhais indicative plural present
- empalham indicative plural present
- empalhava first-person imperfect indicative
- empalhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empalhar?
- Brazil /ẽ.paˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ẽ.paˈʎa(h)]
- Brazil /ĩ.paˈʎa(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 empalhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empalhar in Portuguese?
empalhar appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).