guinar
Portuguese, verb/ɡiˈna(ʁ)/
guinar is spelled G-U-I-N-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 154,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guinar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to swerve (to go out of a straight line, often brusquely)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mudar o rumo uma embarcação”.
What does guinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swerve (to go out of a straight line, often brusquely)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mudar o rumo uma embarcação 2. voltar-se subitamente para uma outra direção diferente daquela em que se estava 3. mudar brusca e inesperadamente de opinião, de pensamento; tomar novos rumos 4. melhorar a situação; crescer nos negócios ou na hierarquia da profissão
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 guinar
- guino first-person present singular
- guinei first-person preterite singular
- guinado participle past
- guinares infinitive second-person singular
- guinarmos first-person infinitive plural
- guinardes infinitive plural second-person
- guinarem infinitive plural third-person
- guinando gerund
- guinados masculine participle past
- guinada feminine participle past
- guinadas feminine participle past
- guinas indicative present second-person
- guina indicative present singular
- guinamos first-person indicative plural
- guinais indicative plural present
- guinam indicative plural present
- guinava first-person imperfect indicative
- guinavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guinar?
- Brazil /ɡiˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ɡiˈna(h)]
- /ɡiˈna(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 guinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guinar in Portuguese?
guinar appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).