quebrantar
Portuguese, verb/ke.bɾɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/
quebrantar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to evil-eye (cast an evil-eye upon)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desanimar, frustrar”.
What does quebrantar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to evil-eye (cast an evil-eye upon)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. desanimar, frustrar
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 quebrantar
- quebranto first-person present singular
- quebrantei first-person preterite singular
- quebrantado participle past
- quebrantares infinitive second-person singular
- quebrantarmos first-person infinitive plural
- quebrantardes infinitive plural second-person
- quebrantarem infinitive plural third-person
- quebrantando gerund
- quebrantados masculine participle past
- quebrantada feminine participle past
- quebrantadas feminine participle past
- quebrantas indicative present second-person
- quebranta indicative present singular
- quebrantamos first-person indicative plural
- quebrantais indicative plural present
- quebrantam indicative plural present
- quebrantava first-person imperfect indicative
- quebrantavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quebrantar?
- Brazil /ke.bɾɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ke.bɾɐ̃ˈta(h)]
- /ke.bɾɐ̃ˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is quebrantar in Portuguese?
quebrantar appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).