sarará
Portuguese, noun
sarará is spelled S-A-R-A-R-Á (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 97,539th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sarará is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “crab of species Armases benedicti” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular future indicative of sarar. Without its accent, sarara is a different word: “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of sarar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mestiço de branco ou negro, ou mestiça da branca ou negra, cuja principal característica é a presença de…”.
What does sarará mean in English?
noun
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Brazilmasculinecrab of species Armases benedicti
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininemasculinea multiracial person or pardo with perceivable black African facial features, light complexion and sometimes eyes, and fair but curly or afro-like frizzly hair.
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininealternative form of sarassará (“carpenter ant”)
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of sarar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of sarar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mestiço de branco ou negro, ou mestiça da branca ou negra, cuja principal característica é a presença de cabelos crespos, loiros ou ruivos, e pele clara
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito mais-que-perfeito do indicativo do verbo sarar
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 sarará
- sararás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is sarará in Portuguese?
sarará appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).