fanha
Portuguese, noun
fanha is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a nasally-voiced person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of fanho. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “quem fala pelo nariz, pessoa roufenha, fanhosa”.
What does fanha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinea nasally-voiced person
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinehaving a nasally voice
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of fanho
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. quem fala pelo nariz, pessoa roufenha, fanhosa
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 fanha
- fanhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fanha in Portuguese?
fanha appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).