farinha
Portuguese, noun/faˈɾĩ.ɲɐ/
farinha is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “flour (ground cereal grains)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cereal moído em partículas finas, usado para a confecção de pães, bolos, tortas, etc”.
What does farinha mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineflour (ground cereal grains)
- 2
femininecassava flour, eaten in a meal
Não quer farinha na sua feijoada?
- 3
colloquialfemininecocaine
- 4
femininetree of Dimorphandra mollis
- 5
femininecopperpod (tree of Peltophorum dubium)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cereal moído em partículas finas, usado para a confecção de pães, bolos, tortas, etc 2. raízes ou sementes moídas com fins culinários 3. a farinha de mandioca 4. barbatimão (Dimorphandra mollis)
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 farinha
- farinhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce farinha?
- Brazil /faˈɾĩ.ɲɐ/
- Brazil [faˈɾĩ.j̃ɐ]
- Portugal /fɐˈɾi.ɲɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to farinha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is farinha in Portuguese?
farinha appears 11 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).