espanar
Portuguese, verb/is.paˈna(ʁ)/
espanar is spelled E-S-P-A-N-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 153,088th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espanar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tirar o pó, normalmente com um espanador de pó”.
What does espanar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dust
- 2
to give up because something is no longer possible, like relationship differences
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tirar o pó, normalmente com um espanador de pó 2. agitar 3. desgastar-se (parafuso ou rosca) a ponto de não mais conseguir segurar 4. limpar o linho, espadanar
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 espanar
- espano first-person present singular
- espanei first-person preterite singular
- espanado participle past
- espanares infinitive second-person singular
- espanarmos first-person infinitive plural
- espanardes infinitive plural second-person
- espanarem infinitive plural third-person
- espanando gerund
- espanados masculine participle past
- espanada feminine participle past
- espanadas feminine participle past
- espanas indicative present second-person
- espana indicative present singular
- espanamos first-person indicative plural
- espanais indicative plural present
- espanam indicative plural present
- espanava first-person imperfect indicative
- espanavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce espanar?
- Brazil /is.paˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.paˈna(h)]
- Brazil /es.paˈna(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is espanar in Portuguese?
espanar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).