lavar
Portuguese, verb/laˈva(ʁ)/
lavar is spelled L-A-V-A-R (5 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,317th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lavar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “limpar (algo) por ação de um líquido, especialmente água”.
What does lavar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wash
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. limpar (algo) por ação de um líquido, especialmente água 2. cercar ou passar junto de; banhar 3. tornar (cor) mais suave, misturando com água; diluir 4. tornar legal (dinheiro ilícito) por meio de fraude
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 lavar
- lavo first-person present singular
- lavei first-person preterite singular
- lavado participle past
- lavares infinitive second-person singular
- lavarmos first-person infinitive plural
- lavardes infinitive plural second-person
- lavarem infinitive plural third-person
- lavando gerund
- lavados masculine participle past
- lavada feminine participle past
- lavadas feminine participle past
- lavas indicative present second-person
- lava indicative present singular
- lavamos first-person indicative plural
- lavais indicative plural present
- lavam indicative plural present
- lavava first-person imperfect indicative
- lavavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lavar?
- Brazil /laˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [laˈva(h)]
- /laˈva(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 lavar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lavar in Portuguese?
lavar appears 26 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).