alfarrobeira
Portuguese, noun/aw.fa.ʁoˈbe(j).ɾɐ/
alfarrobeira is spelled A-L-F-A-R-R-O-B-E-I-R-A (12 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 133,944th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alfarrobeira is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “carob (Ceratonia siliqua, a tree of the Mediterranean region)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “árvore da família das leguminosas; nome científico: Ceratonia siliqua L”.
What does alfarrobeira mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecarob (Ceratonia siliqua, a tree of the Mediterranean region)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. árvore da família das leguminosas; nome científico: Ceratonia siliqua L.
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 alfarrobeira
- alfarrobeiras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alfarrobeira?
- Brazil /aw.fa.ʁoˈbe(j).ɾɐ/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.fa.hoˈbe(ɪ̯).ɾɐ]
- /aw.fa.ʁoˈbe(j).ɾɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alfarrobeira
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alfarrobeira in Portuguese?
alfarrobeira appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).