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arse

Portuguese, noun

arse is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does arse mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininearsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)

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

Forms of arse

  • arses plural
  • ársis alternative

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

English words that translate to arse

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is arse in Portuguese?

arse appears about once in every 38 million words in written Portuguese.

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