guisar
Portuguese, verb/ɡiˈza(ʁ)/
guisar is spelled G-U-I-S-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese, the 244,057th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guisar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to stew (to cook in liquid)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “refogar”.
What does guisar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stew (to cook in liquid)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. refogar 2. preparar como um ensopado
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 guisar
- guiso first-person present singular
- guisei first-person preterite singular
- guisado participle past
- guisares infinitive second-person singular
- guisarmos first-person infinitive plural
- guisardes infinitive plural second-person
- guisarem infinitive plural third-person
- guisando gerund
- guisados masculine participle past
- guisada feminine participle past
- guisadas feminine participle past
- guisas indicative present second-person
- guisa indicative present singular
- guisamos first-person indicative plural
- guisais indicative plural present
- guisam indicative plural present
- guisava first-person imperfect indicative
- guisavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guisar?
- Brazil /ɡiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ɡiˈza(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to guisar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guisar in Portuguese?
guisar appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).