untar
Portuguese, verb/ũˈta(ʁ)/
untar is spelled U-N-T-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Untar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to smear; to spread (to distribute in a thin layer)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aplicar gordura ou substância oleosa”.
What does untar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to smear; to spread (to distribute in a thin layer)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. aplicar gordura ou substância oleosa 2. engordurar, besuntar
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 untar
- unto first-person present singular
- untei first-person preterite singular
- untado participle past
- untares infinitive second-person singular
- untarmos first-person infinitive plural
- untardes infinitive plural second-person
- untarem infinitive plural third-person
- untando gerund
- untados masculine participle past
- untada feminine participle past
- untadas feminine participle past
- untas indicative present second-person
- unta indicative present singular
- untamos first-person indicative plural
- untais indicative plural present
- untam indicative plural present
- untava first-person imperfect indicative
- untavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce untar?
- Brazil /ũˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ũˈta(h)]
- /ũˈta(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 untar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is untar in Portuguese?
untar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).