afiar
Portuguese, verb/a.fiˈa(ʁ)/
afiar is spelled A-F-I-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 53,784th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sharpen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar fio a”.
What does afiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sharpen
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar fio a 2. aguçar
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 afiar
- afio first-person present singular
- afiei first-person preterite singular
- afiado participle past
- afiares infinitive second-person singular
- afiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- afiardes infinitive plural second-person
- afiarem infinitive plural third-person
- afiando gerund
- afiados masculine participle past
- afiada feminine participle past
- afiadas feminine participle past
- afias indicative present second-person
- afia indicative present singular
- afiamos first-person indicative plural
- afiais indicative plural present
- afiam indicative plural present
- afiava first-person imperfect indicative
- afiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afiar?
- Brazil /a.fiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.fiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /aˈfja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to afiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is afiar in Portuguese?
afiar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).