butiá
Portuguese, noun/bu.t͡ʃiˈa/
butiá is spelled B-U-T-I-Á (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,070th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Butiá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “the fruit of the jelly palm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome vulgar da Butia eriosphata”.
What does butiá mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinethe fruit of the jelly palm
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome vulgar da Butia eriosphata 2. nome de várias espécies de palmeiras 3. o fruto de tais palmeiras
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul
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 butiá
- butiás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce butiá?
- Brazil /bu.t͡ʃiˈa/
- Portugal /bu.tiˈa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is butiá in Portuguese?
butiá appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).