escriba
Portuguese, noun/isˈkɾi.bɐ/
escriba is spelled E-S-C-R-I-B-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,194th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escriba is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “scribe (someone employed to write and take notes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “escritor de qualidade duvidosa; escrevinhador”.
What does escriba mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinescribe (someone employed to write and take notes)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. escritor de qualidade duvidosa; escrevinhador
noun: 1. pessoa que escrevia os textos religiosos e oficiais e copiava os manuscritos; copista; escrivão 2. doutor ou intérprete da lei entre os hebreus
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 escriba
- escribas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escriba?
- Brazil /isˈkɾi.bɐ/
- Brazil /esˈkɾi.bɐ/
- /iʃˈkɾi.bɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escriba
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escriba in Portuguese?
escriba appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).