uivar
Portuguese, verb/ujˈva(ʁ)/
uivar is spelled U-I-V-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Uivar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to howl, to utter a loud and mournful sound as dogs and wolves often do” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dar uivos”.
What does uivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to howl, to utter a loud and mournful sound as dogs and wolves often do
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. dar uivos 2. ulular
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 uivar
- uivo first-person present singular
- uivei first-person preterite singular
- uivado participle past
- uivares infinitive second-person singular
- uivarmos first-person infinitive plural
- uivardes infinitive plural second-person
- uivarem infinitive plural third-person
- uivando gerund
- uivados masculine participle past
- uivada feminine participle past
- uivadas feminine participle past
- uivas indicative present second-person
- uiva indicative present singular
- uivamos first-person indicative plural
- uivais indicative plural present
- uivam indicative plural present
- uivava first-person imperfect indicative
- uivavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce uivar?
- Brazil /ujˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [uɪ̯ˈva(h)]
- /ujˈva(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to uivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is uivar in Portuguese?
uivar appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).