tosar
Portuguese, verb/toˈza(ʁ)/
tosar is spelled T-O-S-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 102,716th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tosar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shear (to remove the fleece from a sheep)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar o velo aos animais lanígeros; tosquiar”.
What does tosar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shear (to remove the fleece from a sheep)
- 2
to crop (to cut hair short)
- 3
to trim or cut a pet's hair (as part of pet grooming)
verb
- 1
to beat up
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cortar o velo aos animais lanígeros; tosquiar 2. aparar a felpa de; aparar por igual 3. comer (falando do gado que pasta).
verb: 1. bater, dar pancadas em; sovar
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 tosar
- toso first-person present singular
- tosei first-person preterite singular
- tosado participle past
- tosares infinitive second-person singular
- tosarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tosardes infinitive plural second-person
- tosarem infinitive plural third-person
- tosando gerund
- tosados masculine participle past
- tosada feminine participle past
- tosadas feminine participle past
- tosas indicative present second-person
- tosa indicative present singular
- tosamos first-person indicative plural
- tosais indicative plural present
- tosam indicative plural present
- tosava first-person imperfect indicative
- tosavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tosar?
- Brazil /toˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [toˈza(h)]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tosar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tosar in Portuguese?
tosar appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).