molhar
Portuguese, verb/moˈʎa(ʁ)/
molhar is spelled M-O-L-H-A-R (6 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,997th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Molhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wet (to make wet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “meter em líquido”.
What does molhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wet (to make wet)
- 2
to accidentally urinate on something
Molhar a cama.
- 3
colloquialto go south
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. meter em líquido 2. derramar líquido sobre 3. embeber; umedecer
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 molhar
- molho first-person present singular
- molhei first-person preterite singular
- molhado participle past
- molhares infinitive second-person singular
- molharmos first-person infinitive plural
- molhardes infinitive plural second-person
- molharem infinitive plural third-person
- molhando gerund
- molhados masculine participle past
- molhada feminine participle past
- molhadas feminine participle past
- molhas indicative present second-person
- molha indicative present singular
- molhamos first-person indicative plural
- molhais indicative plural present
- molham indicative plural present
- molhava first-person imperfect indicative
- molhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce molhar?
- Brazil /moˈʎa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [moˈʎa(h)]
- /moˈʎa(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 molhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is molhar in Portuguese?
molhar appears 2.8 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).