ascari
Portuguese, noun
ascari is spelled A-S-C-A-R-I (6 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 120,815th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ascari is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “askari (native serving in a colonial African military or police force)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does ascari mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaskari (native serving in a colonial African military or police force)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of ascari
- ascaris plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ascari
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ascari in Portuguese?
ascari appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).