garoar
Portuguese, verb/ɡa.ɾoˈa(ʁ)/
garoar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to drizzle (to rain lightly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cair garoa”.
What does garoar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilto drizzle (to rain lightly)
Não está chovendo forte, está só garoando.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cair garoa
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 garoar
- garoa present singular third-person
- garoou preterite singular third-person
- garoado participle past
- garoando gerund
- garoava imperfect indicative singular
- garoara indicative pluperfect singular
- garoará future indicative singular
- garoaria conditional singular third-person
- garoe present singular subjunctive
- garoo singular first-person indicative
- garoas singular second-person indicative
- garoamos plural first-person indicative
- garoais plural second-person indicative
- garoam plural third-person indicative
- garoavas singular second-person indicative
- garoávamos plural first-person indicative
- garoáveis plural second-person indicative
- garoavam plural third-person indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce garoar?
- Brazil /ɡa.ɾoˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ɡa.ɾoˈa(h)]
- Brazil /ɡa.ɾuˈa(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 garoar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is garoar in Portuguese?
garoar appears about once in every 72 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).