escamar
Portuguese, verb/is.kaˈma(ʁ)/
escamar is spelled E-S-C-A-M-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese, the 174,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escamar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scale (remove the scales from a fish)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar as escamas de”.
What does escamar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scale (remove the scales from a fish)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar as escamas de
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 escamar
- escamo first-person present singular
- escamei first-person preterite singular
- escamado participle past
- escamares infinitive second-person singular
- escamarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escamardes infinitive plural second-person
- escamarem infinitive plural third-person
- escamando gerund
- escamados masculine participle past
- escamada feminine participle past
- escamadas feminine participle past
- escamas indicative present second-person
- escama indicative present singular
- escamamos first-person indicative plural
- escamais indicative plural present
- escamam indicative plural present
- escamava first-person imperfect indicative
- escamavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escamar?
- Brazil /is.kaˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kaˈma(h)]
- Brazil /es.kaˈma(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 escamar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escamar in Portuguese?
escamar appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).