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zombar

Portuguese, verb/zõˈba(ʁ)/

zombar is spelled Z-O-M-B-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 36,381st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zombar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to taunt; to jeer; to mock; to make fun of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “debochar, fazer zombaria de”.

What does zombar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to taunt; to jeer; to mock; to make fun of

    Está zombando de mim?

verb

  1. 1

    to tiptoe; to walk slowly

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. debochar, fazer zombaria de

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 zombar

  • zombo first-person present singular
  • zombei first-person preterite singular
  • zombado participle past
  • zombares infinitive second-person singular
  • zombarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • zombardes infinitive plural second-person
  • zombarem infinitive plural third-person
  • zombando gerund
  • zombados masculine participle past
  • zombada feminine participle past
  • zombadas feminine participle past
  • zombas indicative present second-person
  • zomba indicative present singular
  • zombamos first-person indicative plural
  • zombais indicative plural present
  • zombam indicative plural present
  • zombava first-person imperfect indicative
  • zombavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce zombar?

  • Brazil /zõˈba(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [zõˈba(h)]
  • /zõˈba(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 zombar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is zombar in Portuguese?

zombar 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).

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