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tarrafar

Portuguese, verb/ta.ʁaˈfa(ʁ)/

tarrafar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to fish with a cast net” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pescar com tarrafa”.

What does tarrafar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to fish with a cast net

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. pescar com tarrafa

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 tarrafar

  • tarrafo first-person present singular
  • tarrafei first-person preterite singular
  • tarrafado participle past
  • tarrafares infinitive second-person singular
  • tarrafarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • tarrafardes infinitive plural second-person
  • tarrafarem infinitive plural third-person
  • tarrafando gerund
  • tarrafados masculine participle past
  • tarrafada feminine participle past
  • tarrafadas feminine participle past
  • tarrafas indicative present second-person
  • tarrafa indicative present singular
  • tarrafamos first-person indicative plural
  • tarrafais indicative plural present
  • tarrafam indicative plural present
  • tarrafava first-person imperfect indicative
  • tarrafavas imperfect indicative second-person

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

How do you pronounce tarrafar?

  • Brazil /ta.ʁaˈfa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [ta.haˈfa(h)]
  • /ta.ʁaˈfa(ɾ)/

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