virar
Meaning
- (ergative) to turn (to change direction)
- (ergative) to turn around (to reverse direction)
- (ergative) to capsize
- (ergative) to topple, to overturn
- (transitive) to drink up (to empty a recipient of the liquid therein by drinking it through)
- (ergative) to upset
- (Brazil,colloquial,copulative) to become, to turn into, to transform, to convert
- (Brazil,colloquial,reflexive) to make do, to deal with
- (Brazil,colloquial,reflexive) to get by, to make ends meet, to push forward
- (Brazil,colloquial,ergative) to pull an all-nighter, to stay awake all night
- (Brazil,colloquial,copulative) to embody, to incarnate
- (Brazil,colloquial,copulative) to strike, to stick, to infatuate
Frequency
Hyphenated as
vi‧rar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/viˈɾa(ʁ)/
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *virāre, from Latin gȳrāre or vibrāre.
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