alvará
Portuguese, noun/aw.vaˈɾa/
alvará is spelled A-L-V-A-R-Á (6 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 17,722nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alvará is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “charter, certificate (or similar document)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “documento emitido por autoridade administrativa ou judiciária que ordena ou permite determinado ato”.
What does alvará mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecharter, certificate (or similar document)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. documento emitido por autoridade administrativa ou judiciária que ordena ou permite determinado ato 2. licença para construção arquitetônica
noun: 1. prenome feminino
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 alvará
- alvarás plural
- alvarà alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alvará?
- Brazil /aw.vaˈɾa/
- Brazil [aʊ̯.vaˈɾa]
- Portugal /al.vɐˈɾa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alvará
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alvará in Portuguese?
alvará appears 2.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).