alforje
Portuguese, noun/awˈfɔʁ.ʒi/
alforje is spelled A-L-F-O-R-J-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 109,086th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alforje is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “saddlebag, pannier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “saco duplo aberto no meio, em que a carga é posta equilibradamente dos dois lados e é transportada nas costas…”.
What does alforje mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesaddlebag, pannier
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. saco duplo aberto no meio, em que a carga é posta equilibradamente dos dois lados e é transportada nas costas de animais ou sobre os ombros de uma pessoa
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 alforje
- alforjes plural
- alforge alternative Portugal
- alforja alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alforje?
- Brazil /awˈfɔʁ.ʒi/
- Brazil [aʊ̯ˈfɔɦ.ʒi]
- /awˈfɔɾ.ʒi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alforje
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alforje in Portuguese?
alforje appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).