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carvalhal

Portuguese, noun/kaʁ.vaˈʎaw/

carvalhal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “an oak grove” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mata de carvalhos”.

What does carvalhal mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinean oak grove

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. mata de carvalhos 2. casta de pera

noun: 1. sobrenome comum em português

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 carvalhal

  • carvalhais plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce carvalhal?

  • Brazil /kaʁ.vaˈʎaw/
  • Brazil [kaɦ.vaˈʎaʊ̯]
  • /kaɾ.vaˈʎaw/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to carvalhal

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is carvalhal in Portuguese?

carvalhal 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).