tarrafa
Portuguese, noun/taˈʁa.fɐ/
tarrafa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “cast net” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of tarrafar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “rede de pesca de uso individual cuja borda possui chumbos e o centro, uma corda, por onde se puxa a rede”.
What does tarrafa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecast net
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. rede de pesca de uso individual cuja borda possui chumbos e o centro, uma corda, por onde se puxa a rede 2. capa/capote em frangalhos 3. renda 4. embarcação de pesca
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 tarrafa
- tarrafas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tarrafa?
- Brazil /taˈʁa.fɐ/
- Brazil [taˈha.fɐ]
- /taˈʁa.fɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tarrafa in Portuguese?
tarrafa appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).