boiar
Portuguese, verb/bojˈa(ʁ)/
boiar is spelled B-O-I-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 53,784th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to float” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estrangular; afogar”.
What does boiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to float
- 2
to waft
- 3
to drown
- 4
Brazilslangto be lost, to be confused about what is being discussed
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. o mesmo que boiardo
verb: 1. estrangular; afogar 2. pôr a boiar; pôr a flutuar 3. flutuar 4. andar a tona de água; sobrenadar
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 boiar
- boio first-person present singular
- boiei first-person preterite singular
- boiado participle past
- boiares infinitive second-person singular
- boiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- boiardes infinitive plural second-person
- boiarem infinitive plural third-person
- boiando gerund
- boiados masculine participle past
- boiada feminine participle past
- boiadas feminine participle past
- bóio Brazil first-person indicative
- boias indicative present second-person
- bóias Brazil indicative present
- boia indicative present singular
- bóia Brazil indicative present
- boiamos first-person indicative plural
- boiais indicative plural present
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boiar?
- Brazil /bojˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [boɪ̯ˈa(h)]
- /bojˈa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to boiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is boiar in Portuguese?
boiar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).