costurar
Portuguese, verb/kus.tuˈɾa(ʁ)/
costurar is spelled C-O-S-T-U-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 28,488th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Costurar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sew; to stitch (use a needle to pass thread through pieces of fabric)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “unir com linha”.
What does costurar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sew; to stitch (use a needle to pass thread through pieces of fabric)
- 2
to weave (to make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unir com linha 2. fabricar roupas cortando peças de tecido e unindo com linha e agulha 3. ligar os elementos (de um texto, por exemplo) de maneira coesa 4. dirigir perigosamente, ultrapassando os outros veículos de maneira irregular
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 costurar
- costuro first-person present singular
- costurei first-person preterite singular
- costurado participle past
- costurares infinitive second-person singular
- costurarmos first-person infinitive plural
- costurardes infinitive plural second-person
- costurarem infinitive plural third-person
- costurando gerund
- costurados masculine participle past
- costurada feminine participle past
- costuradas feminine participle past
- costuras indicative present second-person
- costura indicative present singular
- costuramos first-person indicative plural
- costurais indicative plural present
- costuram indicative plural present
- costurava first-person imperfect indicative
- costuravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce costurar?
- Brazil /kus.tuˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kus.tuˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /kos.tuˈɾa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to costurar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is costurar in Portuguese?
costurar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).