chifrar
Portuguese, verb/ʃiˈfɾa(ʁ)/
chifrar is spelled C-H-I-F-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 159,424th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chifrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to gore (to pierce with the horns)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bater com os chifres, com os cornos”.
What does chifrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gore (to pierce with the horns)
- 2
Brazilslangto cuckold (to make a cuckold of someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bater com os chifres, com os cornos
verb: 1. usar a chifra para trabalhar o couro
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 chifrar
- chifro first-person present singular
- chifrei first-person preterite singular
- chifrado participle past
- chifrares infinitive second-person singular
- chifrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- chifrardes infinitive plural second-person
- chifrarem infinitive plural third-person
- chifrando gerund
- chifrados masculine participle past
- chifrada feminine participle past
- chifradas feminine participle past
- chifras indicative present second-person
- chifra indicative present singular
- chiframos first-person indicative plural
- chifrais indicative plural present
- chifram indicative plural present
- chifrava first-person imperfect indicative
- chifravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chifrar?
- Brazil /ʃiˈfɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃiˈfɾa(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chifrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chifrar in Portuguese?
chifrar appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).