povoar
Portuguese, verb/po.voˈa(ʁ)/
povoar is spelled P-O-V-O-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 54,308th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Povoar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to people, populate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “formar povoação em; prover de habitantes; tornar habitado”.
What does povoar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to people, populate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. formar povoação em; prover de habitantes; tornar habitado 2. ajuntar-se, amontoar-se, aglomerar-se em: 3. disseminar seres vivos para crescimento e reprodução em: 4. inspirar (ideias ou sentimentos) abundantemente em (o coração, a mente, etc.):
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 povoar
- povoo first-person present singular
- povoei first-person preterite singular
- povoado participle past
- povoares infinitive second-person singular
- povoarmos first-person infinitive plural
- povoardes infinitive plural second-person
- povoarem infinitive plural third-person
- povoando gerund
- povoados masculine participle past
- povoada feminine participle past
- povoadas feminine participle past
- povôo Brazil first-person indicative
- povoas indicative present second-person
- povoa indicative present singular
- povoamos first-person indicative plural
- povoais indicative plural present
- povoam indicative plural present
- povoava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce povoar?
- Brazil /po.voˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [po.voˈa(h)]
- /po.voˈa(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 povoar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is povoar in Portuguese?
povoar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).