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fumegar

Portuguese, verb/fu.meˈɡa(ʁ)/

fumegar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to smoke, steam, reek” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sair fumo de algo que se está a queimar”.

What does fumegar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to smoke, steam, reek

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. sair fumo de algo que se está a queimar 2. soltar fumaça 3. lançar fumaça ou pó muito fino em 4. transpirar, suar

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 fumegar

  • fumego first-person present singular
  • fumeguei first-person preterite singular
  • fumegado participle past
  • g-gu alternation
  • fumegares infinitive second-person singular
  • fumegarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • fumegardes infinitive plural second-person
  • fumegarem infinitive plural third-person
  • fumegando gerund
  • fumegados masculine participle past
  • fumegada feminine participle past
  • fumegadas feminine participle past
  • fumegas indicative present second-person
  • fumega indicative present singular
  • fumegamos first-person indicative plural
  • fumegais indicative plural present
  • fumegam indicative plural present
  • fumegava first-person imperfect indicative

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

How do you pronounce fumegar?

  • Brazil /fu.meˈɡa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [fu.meˈɡa(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 fumegar

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

How common is fumegar in Portuguese?

fumegar appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.

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