espirrar
Portuguese, verb/is.piˈʁa(ʁ)/
espirrar is spelled E-S-P-I-R-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 33,746th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Espirrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sneeze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “emitir ar repentinamente, com força e produzindo som alto pelo nariz e boca de maneira involuntária e…”.
What does espirrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sneeze
- 2
to squirt
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. emitir ar repentinamente, com força e produzindo som alto pelo nariz e boca de maneira involuntária e espasmódica como reflexo à irritação da membrana da mucosa nasal
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 espirrar
- espirro first-person present singular
- espirrei first-person preterite singular
- espirrado participle past
- espirrares infinitive second-person singular
- espirrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- espirrardes infinitive plural second-person
- espirrarem infinitive plural third-person
- espirrando gerund
- espirrados masculine participle past
- espirrada feminine participle past
- espirradas feminine participle past
- espirras indicative present second-person
- espirra indicative present singular
- espirramos first-person indicative plural
- espirrais indicative plural present
- espirram indicative plural present
- espirrava first-person imperfect indicative
- espirravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce espirrar?
- Brazil /is.piˈʁa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.piˈha(h)]
- Brazil /es.piˈʁa(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 espirrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is espirrar in Portuguese?
espirrar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).