murchar
Portuguese, verb/muʁˈʃa(ʁ)/
murchar is spelled M-U-R-C-H-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,634th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Murchar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to wither (shrivel, droop, dry up)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr murcho”.
What does murchar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wither (shrivel, droop, dry up)
- 2
to deflate
- 3
to become sad
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr murcho 2. privar de viço
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 murchar
- murcho first-person present singular
- murchei first-person preterite singular
- murchado participle past
- murchares infinitive second-person singular
- murcharmos first-person infinitive plural
- murchardes infinitive plural second-person
- murcharem infinitive plural third-person
- murchando gerund
- murchados masculine participle past
- murchada feminine participle past
- murchadas feminine participle past
- murchas indicative present second-person
- murcha indicative present singular
- murchamos first-person indicative plural
- murchais indicative plural present
- murcham indicative plural present
- murchava first-person imperfect indicative
- murchavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce murchar?
- Brazil /muʁˈʃa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [muhˈʃa(h)]
- /muɾˈʃa(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 murchar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is murchar in Portuguese?
murchar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).