malar
Portuguese, noun/maˈlaʁ/
malar is spelled M-A-L-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 81,937th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cheekbone; zygoma” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome em desuso do zigoma”.
What does malar mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedmasculinecheekbone; zygoma
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinecheekbone; zygoma
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome em desuso do zigoma
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 malar
- malares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malar?
- Brazil /maˈlaʁ/
- Brazil [maˈlah]
- Portugal /mɐ.ˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is malar in Portuguese?
malar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).