Borrowed from Latin flagrāre (“to burn, to blaze”).

• Hyphenation: fla‧grar

flagrar (first-person singular present flagro, first-person singular preterite flagrei, past participle flagrado)

1. (Brazil, transitive) to catch in the act (to catch someone doing something considered criminal or otherwise wrong)

   O criminoso foi flagrado saindo da casa roubada.

   The criminal was caught leaving the robbed house.

2. (intransitive) to burn, to blaze

   Synonyms: queimar, deflagrar

• flagrante
• flagra

• “flagrar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “flagrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin flāgrō.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈɡɾaɾ/ [flaˈɣ̞ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fla‧grar

flagrar (first-person singular present flagro, first-person singular preterite flagré, past participle flagrado)

1. (poetic) to burn, to blaze

   Synonym: flamear

• “flagrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025