murar
Portuguese, verb/muˈɾa(ʁ)/
murar is spelled M-U-R-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese, the 197,229th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Murar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cercar com muro ou tapume”.
What does murar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wall
verb
- 1
to mouse (hunt or catch mice; usually of cats)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cercar com muro ou tapume
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 murar
- muro first-person present singular
- murei first-person preterite singular
- murado participle past
- murares infinitive second-person singular
- murarmos first-person infinitive plural
- murardes infinitive plural second-person
- murarem infinitive plural third-person
- murando gerund
- murados masculine participle past
- murada feminine participle past
- muradas feminine participle past
- muras indicative present second-person
- mura indicative present singular
- muramos first-person indicative plural
- murais indicative plural present
- muram indicative plural present
- murava first-person imperfect indicative
- muravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce murar?
- Brazil /muˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [muˈɾa(h)]
- /muˈɾa(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 murar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is murar in Portuguese?
murar appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).