chama
Portuguese, noun
chama is spelled C-H-A-M-A (5 letters) and appears 123 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 786th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chama is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “flame (visible part of fire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of chamar. With an accent, chamá is a different word: “apocopic form of chamar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “labareda que se eleva dos materiais incandescentes, flama”.
What does chama mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineflame (visible part of fire)
- 2
feminineflame (great zeal or passion)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
apocopic form of chamar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. labareda que se eleva dos materiais incandescentes, flama 2. chamariz
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 chama
- chamas plural
- chamma alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chama
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chama in Portuguese?
chama appears 123 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).