bouba
Portuguese, noun/ˈbo(w).bɐ/
bouba is spelled B-O-U-B-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 92,647th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouba is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “yaws” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pequeno tumor cutâneo”.
What does bouba mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineyaws
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pequeno tumor cutâneo 2. doença tropical cutânea causada por Treponema pallidum 3. variante de buba, lesão na pele, escoriação, pequena ferida
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 bouba
- boubas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouba?
- Brazil /ˈbo(w).bɐ/
- Brazil [ˈbo(ʊ̯).bɐ]
- Portugal /ˈbo(w).bɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bouba
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bouba in Portuguese?
bouba appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).