arrastão

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From arrastar (“to trawl; to drag”) +‎ -ão, from rasto (“dragnet”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ʁasˈtɐ̃w̃/ [a.hasˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.ʁaʃˈtɐ̃w̃/ [a.χaʃˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ʁɐʃˈtɐ̃w̃/

Hyphenation: ar‧ras‧tão

Noun

arrastão m (plural arrastões)

(fishing) trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)
Synonym: pesca de arrasto
(fishing) trawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet)
(fishing) dragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water)
Synonyms: arrasto, rasca, rasto, rastro
the act of violently dragging something
Synonyms: arrastamento, arraste, arrasto, puxão
a form of crime, occurring in Brazil, in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal every object in it

Related terms

arrasta
arrastadamente
arrastadeiro
arrastadiço
arrastado
arrastador
arrastadouro
arrastadura
arrastamento
arrastar
arraste
arrasto

Verb

arrastão

(obsolete) Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of arrastam, now a common misspelling.

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