pirar
Spanish, verb/piˈɾaɾ/
pirar is spelled P-I-R-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 128,005th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pirar is a Spanish verb meaning “to be uncouth, to lack class” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Fugarse, largarse de un lugar, sobre todo de la escuela”.
What does pirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto be uncouth, to lack class
- 2
colloquialto go away
- 3
colloquialto shirk
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fugarse, largarse de un lugar, sobre todo de la escuela. 2. Hacer cosas de caracter anormal en un momento circunstancial. 3. Alucinar.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pirar
- piro first-person present singular
- piré first-person preterite singular
- pirado participle past
- pirando gerund
- pirada feminine participle past
- pirados masculine participle past
- piradas feminine participle past
- piras indicative informal present
- pirás indicative informal present
- pira indicative present singular
- piramos first-person indicative plural
- piráis indicative plural present
- piran indicative plural present
- piraba first-person imperfect indicative
- pirabas imperfect indicative second-person
- pirábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- pirabais imperfect indicative plural
- piraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pirar?
- /piˈɾaɾ/
- [piˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pirar in Spanish?
pirar appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).