cipoal
Portuguese, noun/si.poˈaw/
cipoal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a tangle of lianas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mata composta por cipós”.
What does cipoal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea tangle of lianas
- 2
Brazilmasculinetangle; snarl; imbroglio (a tricky, complicated or messy situation that is hard to get out of)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mata composta por cipós
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 cipoal
- cipoais plural
- cipozal alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cipoal?
- Brazil /si.poˈaw/
- Brazil [si.poˈaʊ̯]
- Portugal /siˈpwal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cipoal in Portuguese?
cipoal appears about once in every 56 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).