rolar
Portuguese, verb/ʁoˈla(ʁ)/
rolar is spelled R-O-L-A-R (5 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 8,736th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rolar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to roll (to revolve or cause to revolve)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer girar”.
What does rolar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to roll (to revolve or cause to revolve)
rolar os dados
- 2
to move
- 3
to roam; to wander
- 4
Brazilslangto happen
Não viu o caos que rolou no show de Taylor Swift pelo calor?
- 5
Brazilslangto circulate
Rola droga aqui nessas bandas.
- 6
to scroll (to change one's view of data on a computer's display by moving in gradual increments)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer girar 2. rebolar 3. fluir, passar de um lado para outro 4. adiar o pagamento de uma conta
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 rolar
- rolo first-person present singular
- rolei first-person preterite singular
- rolado participle past
- rolares infinitive second-person singular
- rolarmos first-person infinitive plural
- rolardes infinitive plural second-person
- rolarem infinitive plural third-person
- rolando gerund
- rolados masculine participle past
- rolada feminine participle past
- roladas feminine participle past
- rolas indicative present second-person
- rola indicative present singular
- rolamos first-person indicative plural
- rolais indicative plural present
- rolam indicative plural present
- rolava first-person imperfect indicative
- rolavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rolar?
- Brazil /ʁoˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [hoˈla(h)]
- /ʁoˈla(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 rolar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rolar in Portuguese?
rolar appears 7.9 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).