prostrar
Portuguese, verb/pɾosˈtɾa(ʁ)/
prostrar is spelled P-R-O-S-T-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 88,935th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prostrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to prostrate (to lie flat or facedown)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer cair”.
What does prostrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to prostrate (to lie flat or facedown)
- 2
to destroy
- 3
to humiliate
- 4
to get weak; to weaken
- 5
to kneel; to kowtow
- 6
to humiliate oneself; to act in a submissive manner
- 7
to prostrate (to throw oneself down in submission)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer cair 2. lançar por terra 3. humilhar 4. abater
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 prostrar
- prostro first-person present singular
- prostrei first-person preterite singular
- prostrado participle past
- prostrares infinitive second-person singular
- prostrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- prostrardes infinitive plural second-person
- prostrarem infinitive plural third-person
- prostrando gerund
- prostrados masculine participle past
- prostrada feminine participle past
- prostradas feminine participle past
- prostras indicative present second-person
- prostra indicative present singular
- prostramos first-person indicative plural
- prostrais indicative plural present
- prostram indicative plural present
- prostrava first-person imperfect indicative
- prostravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prostrar?
- Brazil /pɾosˈtɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pɾosˈtɾa(h)]
- /pɾosˈtɾa(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 prostrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prostrar in Portuguese?
prostrar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).