adarve
Portuguese, noun/aˈdaʁ.vi/
adarve is spelled A-D-A-R-V-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese, the 178,247th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adarve is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “wall walk, allure (protected pathway on a wall of a city or castle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adarvar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “muro de fortaleza com ameias”.
What does adarve mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewall walk, allure (protected pathway on a wall of a city or castle)
- 2
masculinedefense wall
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. muro de fortaleza com ameias 2. rua estreita sobre o muro da fortaleza
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 adarve
- adarves plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adarve?
- Brazil /aˈdaʁ.vi/
- Brazil [aˈdaɦ.vi]
- /aˈdaɾ.vi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is adarve in Portuguese?
adarve appears about once in every 39 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).