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flambar

Portuguese, verb/flɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/

flambar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to flambée” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cozinhar ateando-se fogo depois de se regar com álcool”.

What does flambar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to flambée

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. cozinhar ateando-se fogo depois de se regar com álcool

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 flambar

  • flambo first-person present singular
  • flambei first-person preterite singular
  • flambado participle past
  • flambares infinitive second-person singular
  • flambarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • flambardes infinitive plural second-person
  • flambarem infinitive plural third-person
  • flambando gerund
  • flambados masculine participle past
  • flambada feminine participle past
  • flambadas feminine participle past
  • flambas indicative present second-person
  • flamba indicative present singular
  • flambamos first-person indicative plural
  • flambais indicative plural present
  • flambam indicative plural present
  • flambava first-person imperfect indicative
  • flambavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce flambar?

  • Brazil /flɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [flɐ̃ˈba(h)]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to flambar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is flambar in Portuguese?

flambar appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).