passarinhar
Portuguese, verb/pa.sa.ɾĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
passarinhar is spelled P-A-S-S-A-R-I-N-H-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese, the 189,447th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Passarinhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to bird (to observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “andar à caça de pássaros”.
What does passarinhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto bird (to observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment)
- 2
colloquialto bird (to hunt birds)
- 3
colloquialto idle (to spend time doing nothing productive)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. andar à caça de pássaros 2. sair a campo para observar aves 3. andar de lado para lado; deslocar-se; movimentar-se 4. espantar-se (o cavalo); dar pinotes
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 passarinhar
- passarinho first-person present singular
- passarinhei first-person preterite singular
- passarinhado participle past
- passarinhares infinitive second-person singular
- passarinharmos first-person infinitive plural
- passarinhardes infinitive plural second-person
- passarinharem infinitive plural third-person
- passarinhando gerund
- passarinhados masculine participle past
- passarinhada feminine participle past
- passarinhadas feminine participle past
- passarinhas indicative present second-person
- passarinha indicative present singular
- passarinhamos first-person indicative plural
- passarinhais indicative plural present
- passarinham indicative plural present
- passarinhava first-person imperfect indicative
- passarinhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce passarinhar?
- Brazil /pa.sa.ɾĩˈɲa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [pa.sa.ɾĩˈj̃a(h)]
- /pa.sa.ɾĩˈɲa(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 passarinhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is passarinhar in Portuguese?
passarinhar appears about once in every 45 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).