inflamar
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.flaˈma(ʁ)/
inflamar is spelled I-N-F-L-A-M-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inflamar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to inflame (set on fire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr em chama, incendiar”.
What does inflamar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inflame (set on fire)
- 2
to catch fire
- 3
to inflame (produce morbid heat, congestion or swelling)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr em chama, incendiar 2. tornar vermelho e inchado (garganta, etc.) 3. ficar cheio de gente e muito animado (local)
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 inflamar
- inflamo first-person present singular
- inflamei first-person preterite singular
- inflamado participle past
- inflamares infinitive second-person singular
- inflamarmos first-person infinitive plural
- inflamardes infinitive plural second-person
- inflamarem infinitive plural third-person
- inflamando gerund
- inflamados masculine participle past
- inflamada feminine participle past
- inflamadas feminine participle past
- inflamas indicative present second-person
- inflama indicative present singular
- inflamamos first-person indicative plural
- inflamais indicative plural present
- inflamam indicative plural present
- inflamava first-person imperfect indicative
- inflamavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inflamar?
- Brazil /ĩ.flaˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.flaˈma(h)]
- /ĩ.flaˈma(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 inflamar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inflamar in Portuguese?
inflamar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).