concubina
Portuguese, noun/kõ.kuˈbĩ.nɐ/
concubina is spelled C-O-N-C-U-B-I-N-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 47,790th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Concubina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “concubine (a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of concubinar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “feminino singular de concubino”.
What does concubina mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineconcubine (a woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife)
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. feminino singular de concubino 2. mulher ilegítima 3. amante
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 concubina
- concubinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce concubina?
- Brazil /kõ.kuˈbĩ.nɐ/
- Portugal /kõ.kuˈbi.nɐ/
- Portugal [kõ.kuˈβi.nɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to concubina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is concubina in Portuguese?
concubina appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).