rebelar
Portuguese, verb/ʁe.beˈla(ʁ)/
rebelar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to cause to rebel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “induzir à rebelião, à revolta, à revolução”.
What does rebelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cause to rebel
- 2
to rebel (to resist or become defiant towards)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. induzir à rebelião, à revolta, à revolução 2. revoltar-se, desatender as ordens
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 rebelar
- rebelo first-person present singular
- rebelei first-person preterite singular
- rebelado participle past
- rebelares infinitive second-person singular
- rebelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- rebelardes infinitive plural second-person
- rebelarem infinitive plural third-person
- rebelando gerund
- rebelados masculine participle past
- rebelada feminine participle past
- rebeladas feminine participle past
- rebelas indicative present second-person
- rebela indicative present singular
- rebelamos first-person indicative plural
- rebelais indicative plural present
- rebelam indicative plural present
- rebelava first-person imperfect indicative
- rebelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rebelar?
- Brazil /ʁe.beˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [he.beˈla(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rebelar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rebelar in Portuguese?
rebelar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).