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birô

Portuguese, noun/biˈɾo/

birô is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bureau” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mesa de escritório”.

What does birô mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    Brazilmasculinebureau

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. mesa de escritório

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 birô

  • birôs plural
  • bureau alternative

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

How do you pronounce birô?

  • Brazil /biˈɾo/
  • Portugal /biˈɾo/

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

English words that translate to birô

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

How common is birô in Portuguese?

birô appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.

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