trancafiar
Portuguese, verb/tɾɐ̃.ka.fiˈa(ʁ)/
trancafiar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to lock up, imprison, incarcerate, arrest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “o mesmo que trincafiar”.
What does trancafiar mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilcolloquialto lock up, imprison, incarcerate, arrest
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. o mesmo que trincafiar
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 trancafiar
- trancafio first-person present singular
- trancafiei first-person preterite singular
- trancafiado participle past
- trancafiares infinitive second-person singular
- trancafiarmos first-person infinitive plural
- trancafiardes infinitive plural second-person
- trancafiarem infinitive plural third-person
- trancafiando gerund
- trancafiados masculine participle past
- trancafiada feminine participle past
- trancafiadas feminine participle past
- trancafias indicative present second-person
- trancafia indicative present singular
- trancafiamos first-person indicative plural
- trancafiais indicative plural present
- trancafiam indicative plural present
- trancafiava first-person imperfect indicative
- trancafiavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trancafiar?
- Brazil /tɾɐ̃.ka.fiˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [tɾɐ̃.ka.fiˈa(h)]
- Brazil /tɾɐ̃.kaˈfja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trancafiar in Portuguese?
trancafiar appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).