ralar
Portuguese, verb/ʁaˈla(ʁ)/
ralar is spelled R-A-L-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,952nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ralar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to grate, scrape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer passar pelo ralador; triturar; esmagar; moer”.
What does ralar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grate, scrape
Rala o queijo, por favor.
- 2
informalto concern, worry
Não te rales com isso.
- 3
Brazilinformalto work a lot and excessively
Ela teve que ralar muito na vida.
- 4
Brazilinformalto leave, to go away, to beat it
Rala daqui!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer passar pelo ralador; triturar; esmagar; moer 2. importunar; afligir; apoquentar; preocupar; amofinar; consumir 3. sair, geralmente por motivos de força maior 4. preocupar-se
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 ralar
- ralo first-person present singular
- ralei first-person preterite singular
- ralado participle past
- ralares infinitive second-person singular
- ralarmos first-person infinitive plural
- ralardes infinitive plural second-person
- ralarem infinitive plural third-person
- ralando gerund
- ralados masculine participle past
- ralada feminine participle past
- raladas feminine participle past
- ralas indicative present second-person
- rala indicative present singular
- ralamos first-person indicative plural
- ralais indicative plural present
- ralam indicative plural present
- ralava first-person imperfect indicative
- ralavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ralar?
- Brazil /ʁaˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [haˈla(h)]
- /ʁaˈla(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 ralar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ralar in Portuguese?
ralar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).