jacarandá
Spanish, noun
jacarandá is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “jacaranda (any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, jacaranda is a different word: “jacaranda”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Jacaranda) Cualquier árbol del género Jacaranda”.
What does jacarandá mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejacaranda (any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers)
noun
- 1
femininejacaranda
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of jacarando
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Jacaranda) Cualquier árbol del género Jacaranda. 2. (Jacaranda mimosifolia) Árbol nativo de Sudamérica tropical, de hasta 15 m de alto y de flores color violeta pálido.
noun: 1. (Jacaranda copaia) Árbol floral enorme de hasta 35 m de altura; nativo del norte de Sudamérica. 2. Variante de jacarandá (género y árbol ornamental).
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of jacarandá
- jacarandas plural
- jacarandás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to jacarandá
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jacarandá in Spanish?
jacarandá appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).