pairar
Portuguese, verb/pajˈɾa(ʁ)/
pairar is spelled P-A-I-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pairar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “parar, deter a embarcação sem ancorar”.
What does pairar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hover
- 2
to float
- 3
to tolerate
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. parar, deter a embarcação sem ancorar 2. equilibrar-se no ar 3. adejar 4. estar iminente
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 pairar
- pairo first-person present singular
- pairei first-person preterite singular
- pairado participle past
- pairares infinitive second-person singular
- pairarmos first-person infinitive plural
- pairardes infinitive plural second-person
- pairarem infinitive plural third-person
- pairando gerund
- pairados masculine participle past
- pairada feminine participle past
- pairadas feminine participle past
- pairas indicative present second-person
- paira indicative present singular
- pairamos first-person indicative plural
- pairais indicative plural present
- pairam indicative plural present
- pairava first-person imperfect indicative
- pairavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pairar?
- Brazil /pajˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [paɪ̯ˈɾa(h)]
- /pajˈɾa(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 pairar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pairar in Portuguese?
pairar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).