aboiar
Portuguese, verb/a.bojˈa(ʁ)/
aboiar is spelled A-B-O-I-A-R (6 letters). Aboiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to work with cattle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “prender à bóia”.
What does aboiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to work with cattle
- 2
to herd cattle by singing, to sing a herding call (aboio)
verb
- 1
to attach to a buoy
- 2
to float
- 3
to hurl an object far away
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. prender à bóia 2. atirar para longe 3. trabalhar com bois 4. o mesmo que boiar
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 aboiar
- aboio first-person present singular
- aboiei first-person preterite singular
- aboiado participle past
- aboiando gerund
- aboias singular second-person indicative
- aboia singular third-person indicative
- aboiamos plural first-person indicative
- aboiais plural second-person indicative
- aboiam plural third-person indicative
- aboiava singular first-person indicative
- aboiavas singular second-person indicative
- aboiávamos plural first-person indicative
- aboiáveis plural second-person indicative
- aboiavam plural third-person indicative
- aboiaste singular second-person indicative
- aboiou singular third-person indicative
- aboiámos plural first-person indicative
- aboiastes plural second-person indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aboiar?
- Brazil /a.bojˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.boɪ̯ˈa(h)]
- /a.bojˈa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.