estirar
Portuguese, verb/is.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/
estirar is spelled E-S-T-I-R-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese, the 150,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Estirar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stretch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esticar, estender”.
What does estirar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stretch
- 2
to extend, elongate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. esticar, estender 2. distender (um músculo)
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 estirar
- estiro first-person present singular
- estirei first-person preterite singular
- estirado participle past
- estirares infinitive second-person singular
- estirarmos first-person infinitive plural
- estirardes infinitive plural second-person
- estirarem infinitive plural third-person
- estirando gerund
- estirados masculine participle past
- estirada feminine participle past
- estiradas feminine participle past
- estiras indicative present second-person
- estira indicative present singular
- estiramos first-person indicative plural
- estirais indicative plural present
- estiram indicative plural present
- estirava first-person imperfect indicative
- estiravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce estirar?
- Brazil /is.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.t͡ʃiˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /es.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is estirar in Portuguese?
estirar appears about once in every 26 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).