palmitar
Portuguese, verb/paw.miˈta(ʁ)/
palmitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to date or express romantic interest in a white person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “uma pessoa negra, sobretudo um homem, ter relação romântica com pessoa branca”.
What does palmitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilderogatoryslangto date or express romantic interest in a white person
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. uma pessoa negra, sobretudo um homem, ter relação romântica com pessoa branca
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 palmitar
- palmito first-person present singular
- palmitei first-person preterite singular
- palmitado participle past
- palmitares infinitive second-person singular
- palmitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- palmitardes infinitive plural second-person
- palmitarem infinitive plural third-person
- palmitando gerund
- palmitados masculine participle past
- palmitada feminine participle past
- palmitadas feminine participle past
- palmitas indicative present second-person
- palmita indicative present singular
- palmitamos first-person indicative plural
- palmitais indicative plural present
- palmitam indicative plural present
- palmitava first-person imperfect indicative
- palmitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palmitar?
- Brazil /paw.miˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [paʊ̯.miˈta(h)]
- /paw.miˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.