cirandar
Portuguese, verb/si.ɾɐ̃ˈda(ʁ)/
cirandar is spelled C-I-R-A-N-D-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 111,334th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cirandar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sieve (to strain, sift or sort using a sieve)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peneirar”.
What does cirandar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sieve (to strain, sift or sort using a sieve)
- 2
to dance the ciranda
- 3
to move around aimlessly
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. peneirar
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 cirandar
- cirando first-person present singular
- cirandei first-person preterite singular
- cirandado participle past
- cirandares infinitive second-person singular
- cirandarmos first-person infinitive plural
- cirandardes infinitive plural second-person
- cirandarem infinitive plural third-person
- cirandando gerund
- cirandados masculine participle past
- cirandada feminine participle past
- cirandadas feminine participle past
- cirandas indicative present second-person
- ciranda indicative present singular
- cirandamos first-person indicative plural
- cirandais indicative plural present
- cirandam indicative plural present
- cirandava first-person imperfect indicative
- cirandavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cirandar?
- Brazil /si.ɾɐ̃ˈda(ʁ)/
- Brazil [si.ɾɐ̃ˈda(h)]
- Portugal /si.ɾɐ̃.ˈdaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cirandar in Portuguese?
cirandar appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).