abará
Portuguese, noun
abará is spelled A-B-A-R-Á (5 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese, the 195,116th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abará is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a savoury cake made with cowpea that is served as an appetizer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular future indicative of abar. Without its accent, abara is a different word: “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of abar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “massa temperada feita de feijão-fradinho, envolta em folha de bananeira para ser cozida no vapor”.
What does abará mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea savoury cake made with cowpea that is served as an appetizer
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of abar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of abar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. massa temperada feita de feijão-fradinho, envolta em folha de bananeira para ser cozida no vapor
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 abará
- abarás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is abará in Portuguese?
abará appears about once in every 48 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).