maquiar
Portuguese, verb/ma.kiˈa(ʁ)/
maquiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard form of maquilhar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aplicar cosméticos em (o rosto)”.
What does maquiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
BrazilBrazilian Portuguese standard form of maquilhar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aplicar cosméticos em (o rosto) 2. aplicar maquiagem no próprio rosto 3. disfarçar
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 maquiar
- maquio first-person present singular
- maqueio first-person informal present
- maquiei first-person preterite singular
- maquiado participle past
- maquiares infinitive second-person singular
- maquiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- maquiardes infinitive plural second-person
- maquiarem infinitive plural third-person
- maquiando gerund
- maquiados masculine participle past
- maquiada feminine participle past
- maquiadas feminine participle past
- maquias indicative present second-person
- maqueias indicative informal present
- maquia indicative present singular
- maqueia indicative informal present
- maquiamos first-person indicative plural
- maquiais indicative plural present
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maquiar?
- Brazil /ma.kiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ma.kiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /maˈkja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to maquiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maquiar in Portuguese?
maquiar appears 1.0 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).