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gargalhar

Portuguese, verb/ɡaʁ.ɡaˈʎa(ʁ)/

gargalhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to guffaw (to laugh boisterously)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “rir explosivamente ou ruidosamente”.

What does gargalhar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to guffaw (to laugh boisterously)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. rir explosivamente ou ruidosamente

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 gargalhar

  • gargalho first-person present singular
  • gargalhei first-person preterite singular
  • gargalhado participle past
  • gargalhares infinitive second-person singular
  • gargalharmos first-person infinitive plural
  • gargalhardes infinitive plural second-person
  • gargalharem infinitive plural third-person
  • gargalhando gerund
  • gargalhados masculine participle past
  • gargalhada feminine participle past
  • gargalhadas feminine participle past
  • gargalhas indicative present second-person
  • gargalha indicative present singular
  • gargalhamos first-person indicative plural
  • gargalhais indicative plural present
  • gargalham indicative plural present
  • gargalhava first-person imperfect indicative
  • gargalhavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce gargalhar?

  • Brazil /ɡaʁ.ɡaˈʎa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ɡaɦ.ɡaˈʎa(h)]
  • /ɡaɾ.ɡaˈʎa(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 gargalhar

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

How common is gargalhar in Portuguese?

gargalhar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

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