arquear
Portuguese, verb/aʁ.keˈa(ʁ)/
arquear is spelled A-R-Q-U-E-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arquear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bow (become bent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar a forma de arco a”.
What does arquear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bow (become bent)
- 2
to bow (bend a thing)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar a forma de arco a 2. curvar
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 arquear
- arqueio first-person present singular
- arqueei first-person preterite singular
- arqueado participle past
- arqueares infinitive second-person singular
- arquearmos first-person infinitive plural
- arqueardes infinitive plural second-person
- arquearem infinitive plural third-person
- arqueando gerund
- arqueados masculine participle past
- arqueada feminine participle past
- arqueadas feminine participle past
- arqueias indicative present second-person
- arqueia indicative present singular
- arqueamos first-person indicative plural
- arqueais indicative plural present
- arqueiam indicative plural present
- arqueava first-person imperfect indicative
- arqueavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arquear?
- Brazil /aʁ.keˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ah.keˈa(h)]
- /aɾ.keˈa(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 arquear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arquear in Portuguese?
arquear appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).