abás
Portuguese, noun
abás is spelled A-B-Á-S (4 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 24,552nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abás is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of abassi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, abas is a different word: “plural of aba”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peso equivalente a 0,1458 gramas usado, na Grécia e no Oriente, para avaliar pérolas e pedras preciosas”.
What does abás mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of abassi
noun
- 1
plural of aba
verb
- 1
second-person singular present 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. peso equivalente a 0,1458 gramas usado, na Grécia e no Oriente, para avaliar pérolas e pedras preciosas 2. moeda persa de prata
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 abás
- abases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to abás
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abás in Portuguese?
abás appears 1.7 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).