fumigar
Portuguese, verb/fu.miˈɡa(ʁ)/
fumigar is spelled F-U-M-I-G-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written Portuguese, the 201,356th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fumigar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fumigate (to disinfect or rid of vermin using fumes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “submeter à ação do fumo”.
What does fumigar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fumigate (to disinfect or rid of vermin using fumes)
- 2
to smoke (apply smoke)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. submeter à ação do fumo 2. espargir substâncias vaporizadas ou nebulizadas, com diversas funções entre elas a desinfeção, desinsetação
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 fumigar
- fumigo first-person present singular
- fumiguei first-person preterite singular
- fumigado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- fumigares infinitive second-person singular
- fumigarmos first-person infinitive plural
- fumigardes infinitive plural second-person
- fumigarem infinitive plural third-person
- fumigando gerund
- fumigados masculine participle past
- fumigada feminine participle past
- fumigadas feminine participle past
- fumigas indicative present second-person
- fumiga indicative present singular
- fumigamos first-person indicative plural
- fumigais indicative plural present
- fumigam indicative plural present
- fumigava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fumigar?
- Brazil /fu.miˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fu.miˈɡa(h)]
- /fu.miˈɡa(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 fumigar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fumigar in Portuguese?
fumigar appears about once in every 51 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).