tilintar
Portuguese, verb/t͡ʃi.lĩˈta(ʁ)/
tilintar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to tinkle, chink” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “soar ou fazer soar som como o de uma campainha, um metal etc”.
What does tilintar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to tinkle, chink
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. soar ou fazer soar som como o de uma campainha, um metal etc.
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 tilintar
- tilinto first-person present singular
- tilintei first-person preterite singular
- tilintado participle past
- tilintares infinitive second-person singular
- tilintarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tilintardes infinitive plural second-person
- tilintarem infinitive plural third-person
- tilintando gerund
- tilintados masculine participle past
- tilintada feminine participle past
- tilintadas feminine participle past
- tilintas indicative present second-person
- tilinta indicative present singular
- tilintamos first-person indicative plural
- tilintais indicative plural present
- tilintam indicative plural present
- tilintava first-person imperfect indicative
- tilintavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tilintar?
- Brazil /t͡ʃi.lĩˈta(ʁ)/
- Brazil [t͡ʃi.lĩˈta(h)]
- /t͡ʃi.lĩˈta(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tilintar in Portuguese?
tilintar appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).