raptar
Portuguese, verb/ʁa.piˈta(ʁ)/
raptar is spelled R-A-P-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 51,518th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Raptar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to abduct (capture and keep (someone) imprisoned, demanding something (usually money) in exchange for their life)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arrebatar, roubar”.
What does raptar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to abduct (capture and keep (someone) imprisoned, demanding something (usually money) in exchange for their life)
- 2
to prey, snatch (take away with violence, take by force)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. arrebatar, roubar 2. cometer o crime de rapto contra
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 raptar
- rapto first-person present singular
- raptei first-person preterite singular
- raptado participle past
- raptares infinitive second-person singular
- raptarmos first-person infinitive plural
- raptardes infinitive plural second-person
- raptarem infinitive plural third-person
- raptando gerund
- raptados masculine participle past
- raptada feminine participle past
- raptadas feminine participle past
- raptas indicative present second-person
- rapta indicative present singular
- raptamos first-person indicative plural
- raptais indicative plural present
- raptam indicative plural present
- raptava first-person imperfect indicative
- raptavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce raptar?
- Brazil /ʁa.piˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ha.piˈta(h)]
- Brazil /ʁapˈta(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to raptar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is raptar in Portuguese?
raptar 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).