lixar
Portuguese, verb/liˈʃa(ʁ)/
lixar is spelled L-I-X-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,608th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lixar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sand (with sandpaper)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “trabalhar com lixa, polir”.
What does lixar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sand (with sandpaper)
Ainda falta lixar o batente.
- 2
to polish
- 3
colloquialto screw up, to ruin
- 4
colloquialto get screwed up, to be in difficulties
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. trabalhar com lixa, polir 2. sujar de lixo, manchar 3. estar a não importar-se
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 lixar
- lixo first-person present singular
- lixei first-person preterite singular
- lixado participle past
- lixares infinitive second-person singular
- lixarmos first-person infinitive plural
- lixardes infinitive plural second-person
- lixarem infinitive plural third-person
- lixando gerund
- lixados masculine participle past
- lixada feminine participle past
- lixadas feminine participle past
- lixas indicative present second-person
- lixa indicative present singular
- lixamos first-person indicative plural
- lixais indicative plural present
- lixam indicative plural present
- lixava first-person imperfect indicative
- lixavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lixar?
- Brazil /liˈʃa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [liˈʃa(h)]
- /liˈʃa(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 lixar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lixar in Portuguese?
lixar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).