cabreira
Portuguese, noun
cabreira is spelled C-A-B-R-E-I-R-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,709th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabreira is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “infertile land” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of cabreiro. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pastora de cabras”.
What does cabreira mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of cabreiro
- 2
feminineinfertile land
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of cabreiro
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pastora de cabras 2. planta leguminosa forrageira da espécie Scorpiurus muricatus
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 cabreira
- cabreiras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cabreira
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabreira in Portuguese?
cabreira 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).