cabaça
Portuguese, noun/kaˈba.sɐ/
cabaça is spelled C-A-B-A-Ç-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,963rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabaça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fruta produzida pela cabaceira; nome cientifico: Lagenaria vulgaris”.
What does cabaça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)
- 2
femininecalabash
- 3
femininebong (for smoking marijuana)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fruta produzida pela cabaceira; nome cientifico: Lagenaria vulgaris 2. recipiente feito com a fruta da cabaceira 3. tipo de cachimbo utilizado para fumar maconha
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 cabaça
- cabaças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabaça?
- Brazil /kaˈba.sɐ/
- Portugal /kɐˈba.sɐ/
- Portugal [kɐˈβa.sɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cabaça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabaça in Portuguese?
cabaça 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).