botijão
Portuguese, noun/bo.t͡ʃiˈʒɐ̃w̃/
botijão is spelled B-O-T-I-J-Ã-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 42,839th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Botijão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cylinder (container for pressurised gas)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “recipiente armazenador de gás principalmente gás para cozinha”.
What does botijão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecylinder (container for pressurised gas)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. recipiente armazenador de gás principalmente gás para cozinha
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 botijão
- botijões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce botijão?
- Brazil /bo.t͡ʃiˈʒɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [bo.t͡ʃiˈʒɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Brazil /bu.t͡ʃiˈʒɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to botijão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is botijão in Portuguese?
botijão appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).