aiê
Portuguese, noun/ajˈe/
aiê is spelled A-I-Ê (3 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aiê is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “A religious and secular New Year's festival of black Bahians originating in Sudan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mundo onde vivem os seres humanos, em oposição ao Orum”.
What does aiê mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedfeminineA religious and secular New Year's festival of black Bahians originating in Sudan.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mundo onde vivem os seres humanos, em oposição ao Orum
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 aiê
- aiês plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aiê?
- Brazil /ajˈe/
- Brazil [aɪ̯ˈe]
- Portugal /ajˈe/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aiê in Portuguese?
aiê appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).