arrestar
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁesˈta(ʁ)/
arrestar is spelled A-R-R-E-S-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese, the 197,229th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrestar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sequester the assets of a debtor, in order to ensure that they pay the debt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “embargar”.
What does arrestar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sequester the assets of a debtor, in order to ensure that they pay the debt
- 2
archaicto seize or confiscate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. embargar 2. penhorar
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 arrestar
- arresto first-person present singular
- arrestei first-person preterite singular
- arrestado participle past
- arrestares infinitive second-person singular
- arrestarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arrestardes infinitive plural second-person
- arrestarem infinitive plural third-person
- arrestando gerund
- arrestados masculine participle past
- arrestada feminine participle past
- arrestadas feminine participle past
- arrestas indicative present second-person
- arresta indicative present singular
- arrestamos first-person indicative plural
- arrestais indicative plural present
- arrestam indicative plural present
- arrestava first-person imperfect indicative
- arrestavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrestar?
- Brazil /a.ʁesˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.hesˈta(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arrestar in Portuguese?
arrestar appears about once in every 49 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).