tamborilar
Portuguese, verb/tɐ̃.bo.ɾiˈla(ʁ)/
tamborilar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to drum (with fingers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bater com os dedos numa superfície qualquer, imitando o rufar do tambor”.
What does tamborilar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drum (with fingers)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. bater com os dedos numa superfície qualquer, imitando o rufar do tambor 2. produzir som análogo noutra coisa
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 tamborilar
- tamborilo first-person present singular
- tamborilei first-person preterite singular
- tamborilado participle past
- tamborilares infinitive second-person singular
- tamborilarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tamborilardes infinitive plural second-person
- tamborilarem infinitive plural third-person
- tamborilando gerund
- tamborilados masculine participle past
- tamborilada feminine participle past
- tamboriladas feminine participle past
- tamborilas indicative present second-person
- tamborila indicative present singular
- tamborilamos first-person indicative plural
- tamborilais indicative plural present
- tamborilam indicative plural present
- tamborilava first-person imperfect indicative
- tamborilavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tamborilar?
- Brazil /tɐ̃.bo.ɾiˈla(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɐ̃.bo.ɾiˈla(h)]
- /tɐ̃.bo.ɾiˈla(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 tamborilar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tamborilar in Portuguese?
tamborilar appears about once in every 44 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).