relar
Portuguese, verb/ʁeˈla(ʁ)/
relar is spelled R-E-L-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese, the 159,424th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Relar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to pass by [something or someone] making pressure or friction; to brush past” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esmiuçar, fazer pedacinhos”.
What does relar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pass by [something or someone] making pressure or friction; to brush past
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. esmiuçar, fazer pedacinhos 2. tascar
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 relar
- relo first-person present singular
- relei first-person preterite singular
- relado participle past
- relares infinitive second-person singular
- relarmos first-person infinitive plural
- relardes infinitive plural second-person
- relarem infinitive plural third-person
- relando gerund
- relados masculine participle past
- relada feminine participle past
- reladas feminine participle past
- relas indicative present second-person
- rela indicative present singular
- relamos first-person indicative plural
- relais indicative plural present
- relam indicative plural present
- relava first-person imperfect indicative
- relavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce relar?
- Brazil /ʁeˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [heˈla(h)]
- /ʁeˈla(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is relar in Portuguese?
relar appears about once in every 30 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).