sambar
Portuguese, verb/sɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
sambar is spelled S-A-M-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 37,239th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sambar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to samba” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dançar samba”.
What does sambar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to samba
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dançar samba
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 sambar
- sambo first-person present singular
- sambei first-person preterite singular
- sambado participle past
- sambares infinitive second-person singular
- sambarmos first-person infinitive plural
- sambardes infinitive plural second-person
- sambarem infinitive plural third-person
- sambando gerund
- sambados masculine participle past
- sambada feminine participle past
- sambadas feminine participle past
- sambas indicative present second-person
- samba indicative present singular
- sambamos first-person indicative plural
- sambais indicative plural present
- sambam indicative plural present
- sambava first-person imperfect indicative
- sambavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sambar?
- Brazil /sɐ̃ˈba(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sɐ̃ˈba(h)]
- /sɐ̃ˈba(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 sambar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sambar in Portuguese?
sambar 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).