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sarrar

Portuguese, verb/saˈʁa(ʁ)/

sarrar is spelled S-A-R-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese, the 225,105th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sarrar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to hump (to thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse); to grind (to dance in a sexually suggestive way with both…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “encostar-se em alguém, geralmente num local público, com intenções libidinosas, voluptuosas, buscando ter…”.

What does sarrar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

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verb

  1. 1

    Brazilcolloquialto hump (to thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse); to grind (to dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners pressed against each other)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. encostar-se em alguém, geralmente num local público, com intenções libidinosas, voluptuosas, buscando ter prazer; bolinar 2. cortar alguma coisa usando uma serra ou um serrote; serrar

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 sarrar

  • sarro first-person present singular
  • sarrei first-person preterite singular
  • sarrado participle past
  • sarrares infinitive second-person singular
  • sarrarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • sarrardes infinitive plural second-person
  • sarrarem infinitive plural third-person
  • sarrando gerund
  • sarrados masculine participle past
  • sarrada feminine participle past
  • sarradas feminine participle past
  • sarras indicative present second-person
  • sarra indicative present singular
  • sarramos first-person indicative plural
  • sarrais indicative plural present
  • sarram indicative plural present
  • sarrava first-person imperfect indicative
  • sarravas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce sarrar?

  • Brazil /saˈʁa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [saˈha(h)]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is sarrar in Portuguese?

sarrar appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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