carpir
Portuguese, verb/kaʁˈpi(ʁ)/
carpir is spelled C-A-R-P-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 117,162nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Carpir is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mourn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “colher”.
What does carpir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mourn
- 2
to weep
- 3
to weed (to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. colher 2. chorar 3. capinar
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 carpir
- carpe present singular third-person
- carpi first-person preterite singular
- carpido participle past
- carpires infinitive second-person singular
- carpirmos first-person infinitive plural
- carpirdes infinitive plural second-person
- carpirem infinitive plural third-person
- carpindo gerund
- carpidos masculine participle past
- carpida feminine participle past
- carpidas feminine participle past
- carpes indicative present second-person
- carpimos first-person indicative plural
- carpis indicative plural present
- carpem indicative plural present
- carpia first-person imperfect indicative
- carpias imperfect indicative second-person
- carpíamos first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce carpir?
- Brazil /kaʁˈpi(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kahˈpi(h)]
- /kaɾˈpi(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is carpir in Portuguese?
carpir appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).