tangará
Portuguese, noun
tangará is spelled T-A-N-G-A-R-Á (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 43,330th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tangará is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “manakin (any bird in the family Pipridae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular future indicative of tangar. Without its accent, tangara is a different word: “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of tangar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ave passeriforme da família Pipridae, de plumagem vistosa e comportamento de cortejo elaborado, comum na Mata…”.
What does tangará mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemanakin (any bird in the family Pipridae)
- 2
masculineblue manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata)
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of tangar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of tangar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado de Santa Catarina 2. município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Norte
noun: 1. ave passeriforme da família Pipridae, de plumagem vistosa e comportamento de cortejo elaborado, comum na Mata Atlântica brasileira 2. tipo de fandango valsado com canto melancólico, tradicional em algumas regiões do Brasil
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 tangará
- tangarás plural
- atangará alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tangará in Portuguese?
tangará appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).