fumar
Portuguese, verb/fuˈma(ʁ)/
fumar is spelled F-U-M-A-R (5 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,625th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fumar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to smoke, to deliberately inhale smoke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aspirar o fumo de”.
What does fumar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smoke, to deliberately inhale smoke
- 2
to smoke (to preserve or prepare food for by treating with smoke)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aspirar o fumo de 2. defumar 3. lançar o fumo 4. aspirar o fumo do tabaco
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 fumar
- fumo first-person present singular
- fumei first-person preterite singular
- fumado participle past
- fumares infinitive second-person singular
- fumarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fumardes infinitive plural second-person
- fumarem infinitive plural third-person
- fumando gerund
- fumados masculine participle past
- fumada feminine participle past
- fumadas feminine participle past
- fumas indicative present second-person
- fuma indicative present singular
- fumamos first-person indicative plural
- fumais indicative plural present
- fumam indicative plural present
- fumava first-person imperfect indicative
- fumavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fumar?
- Brazil /fuˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fuˈma(h)]
- /fuˈma(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fumar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fumar in Portuguese?
fumar appears 18 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).