chana
Portuguese, noun/ˈʃɐ̃.nɐ/
chana is spelled C-H-A-N-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 71,594th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chana is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “savanna (tropical grassland with scattered trees)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “planície”.
What does chana mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesavanna (tropical grassland with scattered trees)
noun
- 1
feminineinformalvagina (woman's genitalia)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. planície 2. planura 3. savana nas regiões do leste de Angola
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 chana
- chanas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chana?
- Brazil /ˈʃɐ̃.nɐ/
- Portugal /ˈʃɐ.nɐ/
- Portugal /ˈt͡ʃa.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chana
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chana in Portuguese?
chana appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).