arrastão
Portuguese, noun/a.ʁasˈtɐ̃w̃/
arrastão is spelled A-R-R-A-S-T-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,592nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrastão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “assalto perpetrado por um ou vários grupos de indivíduos em sítio público”.
What does arrastão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)
- 2
masculinetrawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet)
- 3
masculinedragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water)
- 4
masculinethe act of violently dragging something
- 5
masculinea form of crime in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal the most they can; similar to a flash rob but in an open space
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. assalto perpetrado por um ou vários grupos de indivíduos em sítio público 2. técnica de pesca que consiste em percorrer um trecho inundado arrastando uma rede submersa 3. rede em forma de saco que os barcos de pesca arrastam debaixo d'água 4. esforço despendido no ato de arrastar
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 arrastão
- arrastões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrastão?
- Brazil /a.ʁasˈtɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [a.hasˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- /a.ʁaʃˈtɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrastão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrastão in Portuguese?
arrastão appears 1.8 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).