xingamento
Portuguese, noun/ʃĩ.ɡaˈmẽ.tu/
xingamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “insult (speech intended to be rude)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação de xingar”.
What does xingamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialmasculineinsult (speech intended to be rude)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ação de xingar
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 xingamento
- xingamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce xingamento?
- Brazil /ʃĩ.ɡaˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ʃĩ.ɡɐˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to xingamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is xingamento in Portuguese?
xingamento 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).