arrojar
Portuguese, verb/a.ʁoˈʒa(ʁ)/
arrojar is spelled A-R-R-O-J-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arrojar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to throw (cause an object to move rapidly through the air)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arrastar”.
What does arrojar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to throw (cause an object to move rapidly through the air)
- 2
to drag
- 3
to throw oneself
- 4
to crawl
- 5
to dare
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. arrastar 2. arremessar para longe
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 arrojar
- arrojo first-person present singular
- arrojei first-person preterite singular
- arrojado participle past
- arrojares infinitive second-person singular
- arrojarmos first-person infinitive plural
- arrojardes infinitive plural second-person
- arrojarem infinitive plural third-person
- arrojando gerund
- arrojados masculine participle past
- arrojada feminine participle past
- arrojadas feminine participle past
- arrojas indicative present second-person
- arroja indicative present singular
- arrojamos first-person indicative plural
- arrojais indicative plural present
- arrojam indicative plural present
- arrojava first-person imperfect indicative
- arrojavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arrojar?
- Brazil /a.ʁoˈʒa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.hoˈʒa(h)]
- Portugal /ɐ.Ru.ˈʒaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arrojar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arrojar in Portuguese?
arrojar appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).