calau
Portuguese, noun/kaˈlaw/
calau is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hornbill (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grupo de aves da ordem Bucerotiformes”.
What does calau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehornbill (bird)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grupo de aves da ordem Bucerotiformes
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 calau
- calaus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calau?
- Brazil /kaˈlaw/
- Brazil [kaˈlaʊ̯]
- Portugal /kɐˈlaw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calau in Portuguese?
calau appears about once in every 27 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).