tirar
Spanish, verb/tiˈɾaɾ/
tirar is spelled T-I-R-A-R (5 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,473rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tirar is a Spanish verb meaning “to drop intentionally” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Traer un objeto, asiéndolo y ejerciendo fuerza hacia el lado propio”.
What does tirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drop intentionally
- 2
to throw, to toss
- 3
to throw out, to toss, to dump
- 4
to shoot; to launch
- 5
to take (a photograph)
- 6
to print
- 7
to skip (e.g. a rock or stone)
- 8
to knock over; to knock down
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Traer un objeto, asiéndolo y ejerciendo fuerza hacia el lado propio. 2. Por extensión: estirar. 3. Echar algo al aire. 4. Disparar una bala o cualquier otro proyectil desde un arma de fuego.
verb: 1. Atraer una persona o cosa la voluntad y el afecto de otra persona. 2. Dicho de una chimenea: producir el tiraje o corriente de aire de un hogar. 3. Patear el balón al arco rival con la intención de anotar un tanto. 4. Tratándose de ciertas armas, manejarlas o esgrimirlas según arte.
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 tirar
- tiro first-person present singular
- tiré first-person preterite singular
- tirado participle past
- tirando gerund
- tirada feminine participle past
- tirados masculine participle past
- tiradas feminine participle past
- tiras indicative informal present
- tirás indicative informal present
- tira indicative present singular
- tiramos first-person indicative plural
- tiráis indicative plural present
- tiran indicative plural present
- tiraba first-person imperfect indicative
- tirabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tirábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tirabais imperfect indicative plural
- tiraban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tirar?
- /tiˈɾaɾ/
- [t̪iˈɾaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tirar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tirar in Spanish?
tirar appears 23 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).