orar
Portuguese, verb/oˈɾa(ʁ)/
orar is spelled O-R-A-R (4 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,602nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Orar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pray (petition a higher being)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “(regência: a ou por) manter um diálogo interno com Deus, deuses ou divindades, geralmente com muita…”.
What does orar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pray (petition a higher being)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (regência: a ou por) manter um diálogo interno com Deus, deuses ou divindades, geralmente com muita concentração e fazendo súplicas 2. suplicar 3. proferir discurso
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 orar
- oro first-person present singular
- orei first-person preterite singular
- orado participle past
- orares infinitive second-person singular
- orarmos first-person infinitive plural
- orardes infinitive plural second-person
- orarem infinitive plural third-person
- orando gerund
- orados masculine participle past
- orada feminine participle past
- oradas feminine participle past
- oras indicative present second-person
- ora indicative present singular
- oramos first-person indicative plural
- orais indicative plural present
- oram indicative plural present
- orava first-person imperfect indicative
- oravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce orar?
- Brazil /oˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [oˈɾa(h)]
- /oˈɾa(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 orar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is orar in Portuguese?
orar appears 5.4 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).