diva
Portuguese, noun
diva is spelled D-I-V-A (4 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,620th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diva is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “diva (female deity, goddess)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of divo. With a tilde, divã is a different word: “divan, couch”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “deusa, divindade”.
What does diva mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininediva (female deity, goddess)
- 2
femininediva (female celebrity)
- 3
femininerole model (someone to be looked up to)
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of divo
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculinedivan, couch
- 2
masculinedivan (Muslim council of state of the Ottoman Empire)
- 3
masculinedivan (collection of poems)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. deusa, divindade 2. mulher formosa 3. cantora notável
noun: 1. conselho de estado no Império Otomano 2. a câmara onde a reunião do conselho ocorria 3. almofadão onde os turcos costumam sentar-se 4. sofá sem braços e sem encosto
noun: 1. prenome feminino
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 diva
- divas plural
- divo masculine
- divos masculine plural
- divãs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to diva
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diva in Portuguese?
diva appears 4.8 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).