chocalhada
Portuguese, noun/ʃo.kaˈʎa.dɐ/
chocalhada is spelled C-H-O-C-A-L-H-A-D-A (10 letters). Chocalhada is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “rattle (act of shaking a rattle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of chocalhado. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de tocar chocalho, ruído de chocalhos”.
What does chocalhada mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerattle (act of shaking a rattle)
verb
- 1
femininefeminine singular of chocalhado
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato de tocar chocalho, ruído de chocalhos 2. conjunto de chocalhos a tocarem
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 chocalhada
- chocalhadas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chocalhada?
- Brazil /ʃo.kaˈʎa.dɐ/
- Portugal /ʃu.kɐˈʎa.dɐ/
- Portugal [ʃu.kɐˈʎa.ðɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chocalhada
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.