ferrar
Portuguese, verb/feˈʁa(ʁ)/
ferrar is spelled F-E-R-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,226th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ferrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to horseshoe (to apply horseshoes to a horse or other hooved animal)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr ferraduras em”.
What does ferrar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to horseshoe (to apply horseshoes to a horse or other hooved animal)
- 2
Brazilslangto screw (to beset with unfortunate circumstances)
- 3
archaicto anchor (to cast a ship’s anchor)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr ferraduras em 2. cravar 3. morder 4. marcar o gado com ferro em brasa
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 ferrar
- ferro first-person present singular
- ferrei first-person preterite singular
- ferrado participle past
- ferrares infinitive second-person singular
- ferrarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ferrardes infinitive plural second-person
- ferrarem infinitive plural third-person
- ferrando gerund
- ferrados masculine participle past
- ferrada feminine participle past
- ferradas feminine participle past
- ferras indicative present second-person
- ferra indicative present singular
- ferramos first-person indicative plural
- ferrais indicative plural present
- ferram indicative plural present
- ferrava first-person imperfect indicative
- ferravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ferrar?
- Brazil /feˈʁa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [feˈha(h)]
- /feˈʁa(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 ferrar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ferrar in Portuguese?
ferrar appears 5.6 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).