maçar
Portuguese, verb/maˈsa(ʁ)/
maçar is spelled M-A-Ç-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 142,541st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maçar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bother” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bater com maça ou maço”.
What does maçar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bother
- 2
to bore oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bater com maça ou maço 2. pisar 3. aborrecer
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 maçar
- maço first-person present singular
- macei first-person preterite singular
- maçado participle past
- c-ç alternation
- maçares infinitive second-person singular
- maçarmos first-person infinitive plural
- maçardes infinitive plural second-person
- maçarem infinitive plural third-person
- maçando gerund
- maçados masculine participle past
- maçada feminine participle past
- maçadas feminine participle past
- maças indicative present second-person
- maça indicative present singular
- maçamos first-person indicative plural
- maçais indicative plural present
- maçam indicative plural present
- maçava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maçar?
- Brazil /maˈsa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [maˈsa(h)]
- /maˈsa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is maçar in Portuguese?
maçar appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).