farmácia
Portuguese, noun/faʁˈma.sjɐ/
farmácia is spelled F-A-R-M-Á-C-I-A (8 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,260th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Farmácia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a cabinet where medicine is stored” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estabelecimento comercial onde encontramos medicamentos; nela os remédios podem ser manipulados”.
What does farmácia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea cabinet where medicine is stored
- 2
femininepharmacy (a place where prescription drugs are dispensed)
- 3
femininethe science of creating medicine
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estabelecimento comercial onde encontramos medicamentos; nela os remédios podem ser manipulados 2. ramo das ciências que estuda os medicamentos
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 farmácia
- farmácias plural
- pharmácia alternative obsolete
- pharmacia alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce farmácia?
- Brazil /faʁˈma.sjɐ/
- Brazil [faɦˈma.sjɐ]
- /faɾˈma.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to farmácia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is farmácia in Portuguese?
farmácia appears 10 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).