grilar
Portuguese, verb/ɡɾiˈla(ʁ)/
grilar is spelled G-R-I-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese, the 178,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grilar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to sing like a cricket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grelar, crescerem renovos nas plantas da horta como os nabos ou as berças, ou nas batatas armazenadas”.
What does grilar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sing like a cricket
- 2
Brazilslangto worry (to become or make someone worried)
- 3
Brazilslangto disturb, to pester
- 4
Brazilto create false property titles in order to obtain the ownership of lands
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. grelar, crescerem renovos nas plantas da horta como os nabos ou as berças, ou nas batatas armazenadas 2. emitir som os grilos 3. emitir som parecido com o dos grilos 4. incomodar(-se)
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 grilar
- grilo first-person present singular
- grilei first-person preterite singular
- grilado participle past
- grilares infinitive second-person singular
- grilarmos first-person infinitive plural
- grilardes infinitive plural second-person
- grilarem infinitive plural third-person
- grilando gerund
- grilados masculine participle past
- grilada feminine participle past
- griladas feminine participle past
- grilas indicative present second-person
- grila indicative present singular
- grilamos first-person indicative plural
- grilais indicative plural present
- grilam indicative plural present
- grilava first-person imperfect indicative
- grilavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grilar?
- Brazil /ɡɾiˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ɡɾiˈla(h)]
- /ɡɾiˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is grilar in Portuguese?
grilar appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).