alforriar
Portuguese, verb/aw.fo.ʁiˈa(ʁ)/
alforriar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to manumit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “libertar os escravos”.
What does alforriar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to manumit
- 2
to free from oppression
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. libertar os escravos 2. libertar qualquer dominação autoritária
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 alforriar
- alforrio first-person present singular
- alforriei first-person preterite singular
- alforriado participle past
- alforriares infinitive second-person singular
- alforriarmos first-person infinitive plural
- alforriardes infinitive plural second-person
- alforriarem infinitive plural third-person
- alforriando gerund
- alforriados masculine participle past
- alforriada feminine participle past
- alforriadas feminine participle past
- alforrias indicative present second-person
- alforria indicative present singular
- alforriamos first-person indicative plural
- alforriais indicative plural present
- alforriam indicative plural present
- alforriava first-person imperfect indicative
- alforriavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alforriar?
- Brazil /aw.fo.ʁiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.fo.hiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /aw.foˈʁja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alforriar in Portuguese?
alforriar appears about once in every 76 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).