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bilabial

Portuguese, noun/bi.la.biˈaw/

bilabial is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “bilabial (a sound articulated with both lips)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does bilabial mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininemasculinebilabial (articulated with both lips)

noun

  1. 1

    femininebilabial (a sound articulated with both lips)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. diz-se das consoantes que são produzidas pelo fechamento de ambos os lábios, como os sons das letras "p", "b", "m"

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 bilabial

  • bilabiais plural

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

How do you pronounce bilabial?

  • Brazil /bi.la.biˈaw/
  • Brazil [bi.la.biˈaʊ̯]
  • Brazil /bi.laˈbjaw/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to bilabial

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