chimbal
Portuguese, noun
chimbal is spelled C-H-I-M-B-A-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese, the 203,084th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chimbal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of chimbau” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “conjunto de dois pratos arranjados horizontalmente com suas concavidades voltadas uma em relação a outra…”.
What does chimbal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of chimbau
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. conjunto de dois pratos arranjados horizontalmente com suas concavidades voltadas uma em relação a outra, suportados em um pedestal, e que se faz tocarem-se percutindo por meio de um mecanismo acionado por pedal
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 chimbal
- chimbais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is chimbal in Portuguese?
chimbal appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).