telegrafar
Portuguese, verb/te.le.ɡɾaˈfa(ʁ)/
telegrafar is spelled T-E-L-E-G-R-A-F-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese, the 236,506th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Telegrafar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to telegraph (to send a message by telegraph)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mandar telegrama”.
What does telegrafar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to telegraph (to send a message by telegraph)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mandar telegrama 2. comunicar pelo telégrafo
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 telegrafar
- telegrafo first-person present singular
- telegrafei first-person preterite singular
- telegrafado participle past
- telegrafares infinitive second-person singular
- telegrafarmos first-person infinitive plural
- telegrafardes infinitive plural second-person
- telegrafarem infinitive plural third-person
- telegrafando gerund
- telegrafados masculine participle past
- telegrafada feminine participle past
- telegrafadas feminine participle past
- telegrafas indicative present second-person
- telegrafa indicative present singular
- telegrafamos first-person indicative plural
- telegrafais indicative plural present
- telegrafam indicative plural present
- telegrafava first-person imperfect indicative
- telegrafavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce telegrafar?
- Brazil /te.le.ɡɾaˈfa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [te.le.ɡɾaˈfa(h)]
- Portugal /tɨ.lɨ.ɡɾɐ.ˈfaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to telegrafar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is telegrafar in Portuguese?
telegrafar appears about once in every 74 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).