atobá
Portuguese, noun/a.toˈba/
atobá is spelled A-T-O-B-Á (5 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese, the 227,016th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atobá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “booby (bird in the genus Sula)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “palmípede de grande porte do género Sula, de mares tropicais e subtropicais”.
What does atobá mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebooby (bird in the genus Sula)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. palmípede de grande porte do género Sula, de mares tropicais e subtropicais 2. comumente recebe este nome o Sula leucogaster de caraterística plumagem marrom e ventre branco
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 atobá
- atobás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atobá?
- Brazil /a.toˈba/
- Portugal /ɐ.tuˈba/
- Portugal [ɐ.tuˈβa]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is atobá in Portuguese?
atobá appears about once in every 68 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).