mendigar
Portuguese, verb/mẽ.d͡ʒiˈɡa(ʁ)/
mendigar is spelled M-E-N-D-I-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,304th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mendigar is a Portuguese verb meaning “ask for alms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pedir por esmola”.
What does mendigar mean in English?
verb
- 1
ask for alms
- 2
request with instance; beseech; plead
- 3
be a beggar
- 4
derogatoryinformalask for something even if you don't need it
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pedir por esmola 2. solicitar 3. suplicar
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 mendigar
- mendigo first-person present singular
- mendiguei first-person preterite singular
- mendigado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- mendigares infinitive second-person singular
- mendigarmos first-person infinitive plural
- mendigardes infinitive plural second-person
- mendigarem infinitive plural third-person
- mendigando gerund
- mendigados masculine participle past
- mendigada feminine participle past
- mendigadas feminine participle past
- mendigas indicative present second-person
- mendiga indicative present singular
- mendigamos first-person indicative plural
- mendigais indicative plural present
- mendigam indicative plural present
- mendigava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mendigar?
- Brazil /mẽ.d͡ʒiˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [mẽ.d͡ʒiˈɡa(h)]
- /mẽ.d͡ʒiˈɡa(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 mendigar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mendigar in Portuguese?
mendigar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).