maquinar
Portuguese, verb/ma.kiˈna(ʁ)/
maquinar is spelled M-A-Q-U-I-N-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 138,138th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maquinar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to engineer (to plan or achieve a goal by contrivance or guile)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tramar”.
What does maquinar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to engineer (to plan or achieve a goal by contrivance or guile)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tramar 2. planear (um ardil) 3. idear 4. intentar
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 maquinar
- maquino first-person present singular
- maquinei first-person preterite singular
- maquinado participle past
- maquinares infinitive second-person singular
- maquinarmos first-person infinitive plural
- maquinardes infinitive plural second-person
- maquinarem infinitive plural third-person
- maquinando gerund
- maquinados masculine participle past
- maquinada feminine participle past
- maquinadas feminine participle past
- maquinas indicative present second-person
- maquina indicative present singular
- maquinamos first-person indicative plural
- maquinais indicative plural present
- maquinam indicative plural present
- maquinava first-person imperfect indicative
- maquinavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maquinar?
- Brazil /ma.kiˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ma.kiˈna(h)]
- /ma.kiˈna(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 maquinar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is maquinar in Portuguese?
maquinar appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).