arrebitar
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁe.biˈta(ʁ)/
arrebitar is spelled A-R-R-E-B-I-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese, the 176,436th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrebitar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to turn up or upwards” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “virar para cima a ponta de”.
What does arrebitar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to turn up or upwards
- 2
to cheer up
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. virar para cima a ponta de 2. alçar 3. mostrar atrevimento
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 arrebitar
- arrebito first-person present singular
- arrebitei first-person preterite singular
- arrebitado participle past
- arrebitares infinitive second-person singular
- arrebitarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arrebitardes infinitive plural second-person
- arrebitarem infinitive plural third-person
- arrebitando gerund
- arrebitados masculine participle past
- arrebitada feminine participle past
- arrebitadas feminine participle past
- arrebitas indicative present second-person
- arrebita indicative present singular
- arrebitamos first-person indicative plural
- arrebitais indicative plural present
- arrebitam indicative plural present
- arrebitava first-person imperfect indicative
- arrebitavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrebitar?
- Brazil /a.ʁe.biˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.he.biˈta(h)]
- /a.ʁe.biˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arrebitar in Portuguese?
arrebitar appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).