buá
Portuguese, interjection/buˈa/
buá is spelled B-U-Á (3 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,814th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buá is a Portuguese interjection meaning “expresses crying” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does buá mean in English?
interjection
- 1
expresses crying
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. água (termo infantil)
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 buá
- buá! canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buá?
- Brazil /buˈa/
- Brazil /ˈbwa/
- Portugal /ˈbwa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buá in Portuguese?
buá appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).