pitar
Portuguese, verb/piˈta(ʁ)/
pitar is spelled P-I-T-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 153,088th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to smoke (especially a pipe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does pitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto smoke (especially a pipe)
- 2
to break into smaller bits (especially tobacco)
verb
- 1
Portugalto make holes in, to bore
verb
- 1
Portugalcolloquialto eat
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of pitar
- pito first-person present singular
- pitei first-person preterite singular
- pitado participle past
- pitares infinitive second-person singular
- pitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pitardes infinitive plural second-person
- pitarem infinitive plural third-person
- pitando gerund
- pitados masculine participle past
- pitada feminine participle past
- pitadas feminine participle past
- pitas indicative present second-person
- pita indicative present singular
- pitamos first-person indicative plural
- pitais indicative plural present
- pitam indicative plural present
- pitava first-person imperfect indicative
- pitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pitar?
- Brazil /piˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [piˈta(h)]
- /piˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pitar in Portuguese?
pitar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).