foliar
Portuguese, verb/fo.liˈa(ʁ)/
foliar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to make merry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “andar em folias”.
What does foliar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinefoliate; foliar (of or relating to leaves)
verb
- 1
to make merry
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. andar em folias 2. brincar
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 foliar
- foliares plural
- folio first-person present singular
- foliei first-person preterite singular
- foliado participle past
- foliarmos first-person infinitive plural
- foliardes infinitive plural second-person
- foliarem infinitive plural third-person
- foliando gerund
- foliados masculine participle past
- foliada feminine participle past
- foliadas feminine participle past
- folias indicative present second-person
- folia indicative present singular
- foliamos first-person indicative plural
- foliais indicative plural present
- foliam indicative plural present
- foliava first-person imperfect indicative
- foliavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce foliar?
- Brazil /fo.liˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [fo.liˈa(h)]
- Brazil /foˈlja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is foliar in Portuguese?
foliar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).