tarar
Spanish, verb/taˈɾaɾ/
tarar is spelled T-A-R-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written Spanish, the 282,928th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tarar is a Spanish verb meaning “to tare (to indicate the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Indicar la tara (peso del recipiente, que se deduce del total)”.
What does tarar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tare (to indicate the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Indicar la tara (peso del recipiente, que se deduce del total). 2. Poner la tara (pesa sin calibrar) en la balanza para equilibrar los platillos o para efectuar determinadas operaciones en el proceso de pesar algo. 3. Causar alguna tara (deficiencia) en el intelecto, el carácter o la capacidad de razonar. Dejar tarado.
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 tarar
- taro first-person present singular
- taré first-person preterite singular
- tarado participle past
- tarando gerund
- tarada feminine participle past
- tarados masculine participle past
- taradas feminine participle past
- taras indicative informal present
- tarás indicative informal present
- tara indicative present singular
- taramos first-person indicative plural
- taráis indicative plural present
- taran indicative plural present
- taraba first-person imperfect indicative
- tarabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tarábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tarabais imperfect indicative plural
- taraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tarar?
- /taˈɾaɾ/
- [t̪aˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tarar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tarar in Spanish?
tarar appears about once in every 66 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).