escavar
Portuguese, verb/is.kaˈva(ʁ)/
escavar is spelled E-S-C-A-V-A-R (7 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,882nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escavar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar vazio pela remoção do que há dentro; fazer um buraco ou cavidade em; realizar uma escavação”.
What does escavar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dig
- 2
to excavate
- 3
to scoop, hollow
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar vazio pela remoção do que há dentro; fazer um buraco ou cavidade em; realizar uma escavação 2. fazer (um buraco, túnel) pela remoção de material 3. expor através de escavação
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 escavar
- escavo first-person present singular
- escavei first-person preterite singular
- escavado participle past
- escavares infinitive second-person singular
- escavarmos first-person infinitive plural
- escavardes infinitive plural second-person
- escavarem infinitive plural third-person
- escavando gerund
- escavados masculine participle past
- escavada feminine participle past
- escavadas feminine participle past
- escavas indicative present second-person
- escava indicative present singular
- escavamos first-person indicative plural
- escavais indicative plural present
- escavam indicative plural present
- escavava first-person imperfect indicative
- escavavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escavar?
- Brazil /is.kaˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.kaˈva(h)]
- Brazil /es.kaˈva(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 escavar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escavar in Portuguese?
escavar appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).