passarinhar
Portuguese
Etymology
From passarinho (“birdie”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.sa.ɾĩˈɲa(ʁ)/ [pa.sa.ɾĩˈj̃a(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /pa.sa.ɾĩˈɲa(ɾ)/ [pa.sa.ɾĩˈj̃a(ɾ)]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pa.sa.ɾĩˈɲa(ʁ)/ [pa.sa.ɾĩˈj̃a(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /pa.sa.ɾĩˈɲa(ɻ)/ [pa.sa.ɾĩˈj̃a(ɻ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.sa.ɾiˈɲa(ʁ)/ [pa.sa.ɾiˈɲa(h)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.sɐ.ɾiˈɲaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.sɐ.ɾiˈɲa.ɾi/
- Rhymes: -aʁ, -aɾ, -a
- Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧ri‧nhar
Verb
passarinhar (first-person singular present passarinho, first-person singular preterite passarinhei, past participle passarinhado)(colloquial)
- (birdwatching) to bird (to observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment)
- to bird (to hunt birds)
- to idle (to spend time doing nothing productive)
Conjugation
Conjugation of passarinhar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
Further reading
- “passarinhar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “passarinhar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026