mamar
Portuguese, verb/maˈma(ʁ)/
mamar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to suckle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sugar o leite da mãe ou da ama”.
What does mamar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to suckle
- 2
colloquialto drink
- 3
colloquialvulgarto perform oral sex, especially fellatio
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sugar o leite da mãe ou da ama 2. roubar, tirar proveito ilicitamente
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 mamar
- mamo first-person present singular
- mamei first-person preterite singular
- mamado participle past
- mamares infinitive second-person singular
- mamarmos first-person infinitive plural
- mamardes infinitive plural second-person
- mamarem infinitive plural third-person
- mamando gerund
- mamados masculine participle past
- mamada feminine participle past
- mamadas feminine participle past
- mamas indicative present second-person
- mama indicative present singular
- mamamos first-person indicative plural
- mamais indicative plural present
- mamam indicative plural present
- mamava first-person imperfect indicative
- mamavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mamar?
- Brazil /maˈma(ʁ)/
- Brazil [maˈma(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mamar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mamar in Portuguese?
mamar appears 2.2 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).