aluá
Portuguese, noun
aluá is spelled A-L-U-Á (4 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 162,831st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aluá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a Brazilian drink made from fermented corn meal with the addition of pineapple, ginger etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, alua is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “bebida feita na região norte do Brasil a partir de farinha de arroz ou milho torrado com água e fermentado…”.
What does aluá mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea Brazilian drink made from fermented corn meal with the addition of pineapple, ginger etc.
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 4
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. bebida feita na região norte do Brasil a partir de farinha de arroz ou milho torrado com água e fermentado com açúcar em potes de barro
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 aluá
- aluás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is aluá in Portuguese?
aluá appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).