buja
Portuguese, noun/ˈbu.ʒɐ/
buja is spelled B-U-J-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese, the 207,250th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buja is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a violent shoot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does buja mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineinformala violent shoot
Não vale bujas!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of buja
- bujas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buja?
- Brazil /ˈbu.ʒɐ/
- Portugal /ˈbu.ʒɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buja in Portuguese?
buja appears about once in every 55 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).