tosquiar
Portuguese, verb/tos.kiˈa(ʁ)/
tosquiar is spelled T-O-S-Q-U-I-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 36 million words in written Portuguese, the 172,935th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tosquiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to shear (remove the fleece from sheep)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cortar rente (pelo, lã, etc.)”.
What does tosquiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shear (remove the fleece from sheep)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. cortar rente (pelo, lã, etc.) 2. aparar as extremidades da rama das plantas 3. despojar 4. explorar
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 tosquiar
- tosquio first-person present singular
- tosquiei first-person preterite singular
- tosquiado participle past
- tosquiares infinitive second-person singular
- tosquiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- tosquiardes infinitive plural second-person
- tosquiarem infinitive plural third-person
- tosquiando gerund
- tosquiados masculine participle past
- tosquiada feminine participle past
- tosquiadas feminine participle past
- tosquias indicative present second-person
- tosquia indicative present singular
- tosquiamos first-person indicative plural
- tosquiais indicative plural present
- tosquiam indicative plural present
- tosquiava first-person imperfect indicative
- tosquiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tosquiar?
- Brazil /tos.kiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tos.kiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /tosˈkja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tosquiar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tosquiar in Portuguese?
tosquiar appears about once in every 36 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).