irara
Portuguese, noun
irara is spelled I-R-A-R-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 100,600th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Irara is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “tayra (Eira barbara)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of irar. With an accent, irará is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of irar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome vulgar de um mamífero carnívoro da América Central e América do Sul, pertencente à família dos…”.
What does irara mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetayra (Eira barbara)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of irar
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of irar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome vulgar de um mamífero carnívoro da América Central e América do Sul, pertencente à família dos mustelídeos, no Brasil também conhecido como papa-mel
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado da Bahia
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 irara
- iraras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is irara in Portuguese?
irara appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).