chapinhar
Portuguese, verb/ʃa.pĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
chapinhar is spelled C-H-A-P-I-N-H-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese, the 174,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chapinhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to splash (to agitate liquid), especially by walking over it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “banhar com a mão ou com um trapo embebido em líquido, repetidas e frequentes vezes”.
What does chapinhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to splash (to agitate liquid), especially by walking over it
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. banhar com a mão ou com um trapo embebido em líquido, repetidas e frequentes vezes 2. bater de chapa com as mãos na água, agitando-a 3. agitar a água com as mãos ou com os pés
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 chapinhar
- chapinho first-person present singular
- chapinhei first-person preterite singular
- chapinhado participle past
- chapinhares infinitive second-person singular
- chapinharmos first-person infinitive plural
- chapinhardes infinitive plural second-person
- chapinharem infinitive plural third-person
- chapinhando gerund
- chapinhados masculine participle past
- chapinhada feminine participle past
- chapinhadas feminine participle past
- chapinhas indicative present second-person
- chapinha indicative present singular
- chapinhamos first-person indicative plural
- chapinhais indicative plural present
- chapinham indicative plural present
- chapinhava first-person imperfect indicative
- chapinhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chapinhar?
- Brazil /ʃa.pĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃa.pĩˈj̃a(h)]
- /ʃa.pĩˈɲa(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 chapinhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chapinhar in Portuguese?
chapinhar appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).