filaça

Portuguese, noun/fiˈla.sɐ/

filaça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “fibres used to make textiles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “filamento grosseiro extraído do caule do cânhamo, do linho etc., e que se submete ao curtimento antes de se…”.

What does filaça mean in English?

noun

1
femininefibres used to make textiles

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. filamento grosseiro extraído do caule do cânhamo, do linho etc., e que se submete ao curtimento antes de se fiar

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 filaça

filaças plural

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

How do you pronounce filaça?

Brazil /fiˈla.sɐ/
Portugal /fiˈla.sɐ/

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

English words that translate to filaça

flax

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