arcar
Portuguese, verb/aʁˈka(ʁ)/
arcar is spelled A-R-C-A-R (5 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,080th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arcar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shoulder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arquear”.
What does arcar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shoulder
- 2
to afford
- 3
to tussle
- 4
to pant (to breathe quickly)
verb
- 1
to bow (become bent)
- 2
to bow (bend a thing)
- 3
to hoop (to bind using a hoop)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. arquear 2. guarnecer de arcos 3. arrostar, enfrentar, assumir
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 arcar
- arco first-person present singular
- arquei first-person preterite singular
- arcado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- arcares infinitive second-person singular
- arcarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arcardes infinitive plural second-person
- arcarem infinitive plural third-person
- arcando gerund
- arcados masculine participle past
- arcada feminine participle past
- arcadas feminine participle past
- arcas indicative present second-person
- arca indicative present singular
- arcamos first-person indicative plural
- arcais indicative plural present
- arcam indicative plural present
- arcava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arcar?
- Brazil /aʁˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ahˈka(h)]
- /aɾˈka(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 arcar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arcar in Portuguese?
arcar appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).