arpoar
Portuguese, verb/aʁ.poˈa(ʁ)/
arpoar is spelled A-R-P-O-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese, the 264,336th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arpoar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to harpoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atirar o arpão a”.
What does arpoar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harpoon
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. atirar o arpão a 2. agarrar 3. seduzir
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 arpoar
- arpoo first-person present singular
- arpoei first-person preterite singular
- arpoado participle past
- arpoares infinitive second-person singular
- arpoarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arpoardes infinitive plural second-person
- arpoarem infinitive plural third-person
- arpoando gerund
- arpoados masculine participle past
- arpoada feminine participle past
- arpoadas feminine participle past
- arpôo Brazil first-person indicative
- arpoas indicative present second-person
- arpoa indicative present singular
- arpoamos first-person indicative plural
- arpoais indicative plural present
- arpoam indicative plural present
- arpoava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arpoar?
- Brazil /aʁ.poˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ah.poˈa(h)]
- /aɾ.poˈa(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 arpoar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arpoar in Portuguese?
arpoar appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).