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edamame

Portuguese, noun/e.daˈmɐ̃.mi/

edamame is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “edamame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “vagens de soja verdes cozidas, geralmente servidas como aperitivo”.

What does edamame mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineedamame

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. vagens de soja verdes cozidas, geralmente servidas como aperitivo

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 edamame

  • edamames plural

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

How do you pronounce edamame?

  • Brazil /e.daˈmɐ̃.mi/
  • Portugal /i.dɐˈmɐ.mɨ/
  • Portugal [i.ðɐˈmɐ.mɨ]

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

English words that translate to edamame

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

How common is edamame in Portuguese?

edamame appears about once in every 21 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).