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combustão

Portuguese, noun/kõ.busˈtɐ̃w̃/

combustão is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “combustion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “reação química exotérmica entre uma substância (o combustível) e um gás (o comburente), geralmente o…”.

What does combustão mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininecombustion

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. reação química exotérmica entre uma substância (o combustível) e um gás (o comburente), geralmente o oxigênio, para liberar calor

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 combustão

  • combustões plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce combustão?

  • Brazil /kõ.busˈtɐ̃w̃/
  • Brazil [kõ.busˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • /kõ.buʃˈtɐ̃w̃/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to combustão

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is combustão in Portuguese?

combustão appears 3.5 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).