sonar
Portuguese, noun/soˈnaʁ/
sonar is spelled S-O-N-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 38,177th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonar is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “equipamento para determinar a profundidade de ambiente de navegação, obstáculos e outros objetos, através da…”.
What does sonar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesonar (technique and device that uses sound propagation to detect underwater objects)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo ao sonar (substantivo)
noun: 1. equipamento para determinar a profundidade de ambiente de navegação, obstáculos e outros objetos, através da medida do tempo desde a emissão de um sinal sonoro (ou ultrassônico) até a volta do seu eco
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 sonar
- sonares plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sonar?
- Brazil /soˈnaʁ/
- Brazil [soˈnah]
- /soˈnaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sonar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonar in Portuguese?
sonar 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).