pelejar
Portuguese, verb/pe.leˈʒa(ʁ)/
pelejar is spelled P-E-L-E-J-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 117,162nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelejar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fight, to dispute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “batalhar, combater, brigar, lutar; tentar exaustivamente”.
What does pelejar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fight, to dispute
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. batalhar, combater, brigar, lutar; tentar exaustivamente 2. esforçar-se
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 pelejar
- pelejo first-person present singular
- pelejei first-person preterite singular
- pelejado participle past
- pelejares infinitive second-person singular
- pelejarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pelejardes infinitive plural second-person
- pelejarem infinitive plural third-person
- pelejando gerund
- pelejados masculine participle past
- pelejada feminine participle past
- pelejadas feminine participle past
- pelejas indicative present second-person
- peleja indicative present singular
- pelejamos first-person indicative plural
- pelejais indicative plural present
- pelejam indicative plural present
- pelejava first-person imperfect indicative
- pelejavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pelejar?
- Brazil /pe.leˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pe.leˈʒa(h)]
- /pe.leˈʒa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pelejar in Portuguese?
pelejar appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).