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água benta

Portuguese, noun

água benta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “holy water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, água-benta is a different word: “cachaça (a type of Brazilian rum)”.

What does água benta mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineholy water

noun

as água-benta
  1. 1

    Brazilcolloquialfemininecachaça (a type of Brazilian rum)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. água que foi abençoada por um padre e que serve para cerimónias como o batismo.

noun: 1. cachaça

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 água benta

  • águas bentas plural
  • águas-bentas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).