arar
Portuguese, verb/aˈɾa(ʁ)/
arar is spelled A-R-A-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 46,230th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to plough (to use a plough to open furrows)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lavrar (a terra) com arado”.
What does arar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plough (to use a plough to open furrows)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. lavrar (a terra) com arado
verb: 1. estar sem ar 2. estar faminto 3. estar ansioso (para a ocorrência de algo)
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 arar
- aro first-person present singular
- arei first-person preterite singular
- arado participle past
- arares infinitive second-person singular
- ararmos first-person infinitive plural
- arardes infinitive plural second-person
- ararem infinitive plural third-person
- arando gerund
- arados masculine participle past
- arada feminine participle past
- aradas feminine participle past
- aras indicative present second-person
- ara indicative present singular
- aramos first-person indicative plural
- arais indicative plural present
- aram indicative plural present
- arava first-person imperfect indicative
- aravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arar?
- Brazil /aˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [aˈɾa(h)]
- /aˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arar in Portuguese?
arar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).