roubar
Portuguese, verb/ʁo(w)ˈba(ʁ)/
roubar is spelled R-O-U-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,194th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Roubar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to steal (to take illegally or without permission)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “subtrair alguma coisa de alguém mediante violência ou ameaça (a ausência de violência ou ameaça caracteriza…”.
What does roubar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to steal (to take illegally or without permission)
Ele roubou uma carteira do bolso de um pedestre.
- 2
to rob (to steal objects from a location)
Chegamos de viagem e vimos que roubaram nossa casa.
- 3
to cheat (to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation)
O cassino expulsou o jogador que estava roubando no pôquer.
- 4
to seduce (someone who is in another relationship)
Esse cara quer roubar minha mulher.
- 5
to deprive, rob (someone or something) of (its qualities)
O tempo roubara sua beleza.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. subtrair alguma coisa de alguém mediante violência ou ameaça (a ausência de violência ou ameaça caracteriza furto) 2. furtar 3. tirar 4. subtrair
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 roubar
- roubo first-person present singular
- roubei first-person preterite singular
- roubado participle past
- roubares infinitive second-person singular
- roubarmos first-person infinitive plural
- roubardes infinitive plural second-person
- roubarem infinitive plural third-person
- roubando gerund
- roubados masculine participle past
- roubada feminine participle past
- roubadas feminine participle past
- roubas indicative present second-person
- rouba indicative present singular
- roubamos first-person indicative plural
- roubais indicative plural present
- roubam indicative plural present
- roubava first-person imperfect indicative
- roubavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce roubar?
- Brazil /ʁo(w)ˈba(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ho(ʊ̯)ˈba(h)]
- /ʁo(w)ˈba(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 roubar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is roubar in Portuguese?
roubar appears 28 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).