anelar
Portuguese, noun/a.neˈlaʁ/
anelar is spelled A-N-E-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 54,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anelar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ring finger (finger between the middle finger and little finger)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “quarto dedo da mão, contando a partir do polegar, onde, na mão esquerda, coloca-se o anel de noivado”.
What does anelar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pant
- 2
to aspire
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineringlike
noun
- 1
masculinering finger (finger between the middle finger and little finger)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. quarto dedo da mão, contando a partir do polegar, onde, na mão esquerda, coloca-se o anel de noivado
verb: 1. dar forma de anel 2. desejar ardentemente
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 anelar
- anelo first-person present singular
- anelei first-person preterite singular
- anelado participle past
- anelares infinitive second-person singular
- anelarmos first-person infinitive plural
- anelardes infinitive plural second-person
- anelarem infinitive plural third-person
- anelando gerund
- anelados masculine participle past
- anelada feminine participle past
- aneladas feminine participle past
- anelas indicative present second-person
- anela indicative present singular
- anelamos first-person indicative plural
- anelais indicative plural present
- anelam indicative plural present
- anelava first-person imperfect indicative
- anelavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anelar?
- Brazil /a.neˈlaʁ/
- Brazil [a.neˈlah]
- /a.neˈlaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to anelar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anelar in Portuguese?
anelar 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).