pingar
Portuguese, verb/pĩˈɡa(ʁ)/
pingar is spelled P-I-N-G-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 45,243rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pingar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to drop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cair em forma de pingos”.
What does pingar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drop
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cair em forma de pingos 2. quicar (dito da bola) 3. dar cabeçadas com o sono
verb: 1. transmitir input para verificar a condição ou se está acessível ou respondente em uma rede computacional
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 pingar
- pingo first-person present singular
- pinguei first-person preterite singular
- pingado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- pingares infinitive second-person singular
- pingarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pingardes infinitive plural second-person
- pingarem infinitive plural third-person
- pingando gerund
- pingados masculine participle past
- pingada feminine participle past
- pingadas feminine participle past
- pingas indicative present second-person
- pinga indicative present singular
- pingamos first-person indicative plural
- pingais indicative plural present
- pingam indicative plural present
- pingava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pingar?
- Brazil /pĩˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pĩˈɡa(h)]
- /pĩˈɡa(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 pingar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pingar in Portuguese?
pingar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).