passar pano
Portuguese, verb
passar pano is spelled P-A-S-S-A-R-P-A-N-O (10 letters). Passar pano is a Portuguese verb meaning “to rub a washcloth (often wet with water or cleaning products) over a surface in order to clean it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does passar pano mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rub a washcloth (often wet with water or cleaning products) over a surface in order to clean it
Preciso passar pano nessa parede suja.
- 2
derogatoryto minimize or downplay someone's misconduct or crimes; to "clean" someone's reputation
Não passe pano para piadas racistas.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. defender alguém que tenha cometido ato errôneo; defender o indefensável
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 passar pano
- passo pano first-person present singular
- passei pano first-person preterite singular
- passado pano participle past
- passares pano infinitive second-person singular
- passarmos pano first-person infinitive plural
- passardes pano infinitive plural second-person
- passarem pano infinitive plural third-person
- passando pano gerund
- passados pano masculine participle past
- passada pano feminine participle past
- passadas pano feminine participle past
- passas pano indicative present second-person
- passa pano indicative present singular
- passamos pano first-person indicative plural
- passais pano indicative plural present
- passam pano indicative plural present
- passava pano first-person imperfect indicative
- passavas pano imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).