lar
Portuguese, noun/ˈlaʁ/
lar is spelled L-A-R (3 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,069th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “home (place or building where one dwells)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “residência, habitação”.
What does lar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehome (place or building where one dwells)
Não há lugar como o nosso lar.
- 2
masculinehearth (place in a home for lighting fires)
- 3
masculinethe surface of a baking oven
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. residência, habitação
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 lar
- lares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lar?
- Brazil /ˈlaʁ/
- Brazil [ˈlah]
- /ˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lar in Portuguese?
lar appears 29 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).