aljube

Portuguese, noun/awˈʒu.bi/

aljube is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “prison, cave, dungeon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does aljube mean in English?

noun

1
archaicmasculineprison, cave, dungeon

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

Forms of aljube

aljubes plural

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

How do you pronounce aljube?

Brazil /awˈʒu.bi/
Brazil [aʊ̯ˈʒu.bi]
Portugal /alˈʒu.bɨ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is aljube in Portuguese?

aljube appears about once in every 24 million words in written Portuguese.

aljube0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).