alijar
Portuguese, verb/a.liˈʒa(ʁ)/
alijar is spelled A-L-I-J-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese, the 150,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alijar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to jettison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deitar (carga) fora da embarcação”.
What does alijar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to jettison
- 2
to relief, lighten
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. deitar (carga) fora da embarcação
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 alijar
- alijo first-person present singular
- alijei first-person preterite singular
- alijado participle past
- alijares infinitive second-person singular
- alijarmos first-person infinitive plural
- alijardes infinitive plural second-person
- alijarem infinitive plural third-person
- alijando gerund
- alijados masculine participle past
- alijada feminine participle past
- alijadas feminine participle past
- alijas indicative present second-person
- alija indicative present singular
- alijamos first-person indicative plural
- alijais indicative plural present
- alijam indicative plural present
- alijava first-person imperfect indicative
- alijavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alijar?
- Brazil /a.liˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.liˈʒa(h)]
- /a.liˈʒa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is alijar in Portuguese?
alijar appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).