minar
Portuguese, verb/miˈna(ʁ)/
minar is spelled M-I-N-A-R (5 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 26,665th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to mine (to extract ore from the ground)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “escavar para extrair da terra metais, líquidos, etc”.
What does minar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mine (to extract ore from the ground)
- 2
to mine (to place mines (device that explodes when touched or approached) in)
- 3
to undermine (to dig under something)
- 4
to undermine (to weaken or work against)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. escavar para extrair da terra metais, líquidos, etc 2. abrir cavidade por baixo de 3. invadir ocultamente 4. cavar
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 minar
- mino first-person present singular
- minei first-person preterite singular
- minado participle past
- minares infinitive second-person singular
- minarmos first-person infinitive plural
- minardes infinitive plural second-person
- minarem infinitive plural third-person
- minando gerund
- minados masculine participle past
- minada feminine participle past
- minadas feminine participle past
- minas indicative present second-person
- mina indicative present singular
- minamos first-person indicative plural
- minais indicative plural present
- minam indicative plural present
- minava first-person imperfect indicative
- minavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minar?
- Brazil /miˈna(ʁ)/
- Brazil [miˈna(h)]
- /miˈna(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 minar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is minar in Portuguese?
minar appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).