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
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).