vira
Portuguese, noun
vira is spelled V-I-R-A (4 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,385th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vira is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a traditional music and dance genre of northern Portugal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of virar. With an accent, virá is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of vir”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tira de couro entre as solas e a borda do calçado”.
What does vira mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea traditional music and dance genre of northern Portugal
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ver
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of vir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tira de couro entre as solas e a borda do calçado 2. seta aguda 3. dança e música popular portuguesa cujo estilo mais conhecido é o da província portuguesa do Minho
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 vira
- viras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is vira in Portuguese?
vira appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).