cobiça
Portuguese, noun/koˈbi.sɐ/
cobiça is spelled C-O-B-I-Ç-A (6 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,930th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cobiça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “greed, avarice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of cobiçar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desejo veemente de possuir”.
What does cobiça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegreed, avarice
- 2
femininelust
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. desejo veemente de possuir 2. ambição de riquezas 3. avidez 4. ganância
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 cobiça
- cobiças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cobiça?
- Brazil /koˈbi.sɐ/
- Portugal /kuˈbi.sɐ/
- Portugal [kuˈβi.sɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cobiça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cobiça in Portuguese?
cobiça appears 1.8 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).