arribar
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁiˈba(ʁ)/
arribar is spelled A-R-R-I-B-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese, the 258,761st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arribar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to arrive (at a port); to bear away (from the wind)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ser obrigado a entrar num porto que não é o de destino”.
What does arribar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to arrive (at a port); to bear away (from the wind)
- 2
to convalesce
- 3
to migrate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ser obrigado a entrar num porto que não é o de destino 2. manobrar para afastar o barco da direção a que sopra o vento 3. migrar 4. partir
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 arribar
- arribo first-person present singular
- arribei first-person preterite singular
- arribado participle past
- arribares infinitive second-person singular
- arribarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arribardes infinitive plural second-person
- arribarem infinitive plural third-person
- arribando gerund
- arribados masculine participle past
- arribada feminine participle past
- arribadas feminine participle past
- arribas indicative present second-person
- arriba indicative present singular
- arribamos first-person indicative plural
- arribais indicative plural present
- arribam indicative plural present
- arribava first-person imperfect indicative
- arribavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arribar?
- Brazil /a.ʁiˈba(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.hiˈba(h)]
- Portugal /ɐ.Ri.ˈbaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is arribar in Portuguese?
arribar appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).