cunhar
Portuguese, verb/kũˈɲa(ʁ)/
cunhar is spelled C-U-N-H-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cunhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to coin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “imprimir cunho em”.
What does cunhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to coin
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. imprimir cunho em 2. amoedar 3. fabricar (moeda) 4. criar, dar origem a (termo, frase, expressão)
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 cunhar
- cunho first-person present singular
- cunhei first-person preterite singular
- cunhado participle past
- cunhares infinitive second-person singular
- cunharmos first-person infinitive plural
- cunhardes infinitive plural second-person
- cunharem infinitive plural third-person
- cunhando gerund
- cunhados masculine participle past
- cunhada feminine participle past
- cunhadas feminine participle past
- cunhas indicative present second-person
- cunha indicative present singular
- cunhamos first-person indicative plural
- cunhais indicative plural present
- cunham indicative plural present
- cunhava first-person imperfect indicative
- cunhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cunhar?
- Brazil /kũˈɲa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [kũˈj̃a(h)]
- /kũˈɲa(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 cunhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cunhar in Portuguese?
cunhar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).