africanas
Portuguese, noun
africanas is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of africana” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine plural of africano. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “argolas de ouro, semelhantes às que mulheres africanas usam nas orelhas”.
What does africanas mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine plural of africano
noun
- 1
plural of africana
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. argolas de ouro, semelhantes às que mulheres africanas usam nas orelhas
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.
How common is africanas in Portuguese?
africanas appears 9.3 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).