folha
Portuguese, noun
folha is spelled F-O-L-H-A (5 letters) and appears 49 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,924th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Folha is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “leaf (green plant organ)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of folhar. With an accent, fôlha is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “órgão da planta, geralmente verde e responsável pela fotossíntese (na maioria das vezes), composta de limbo…”.
What does folha mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineleaf (green plant organ)
- 2
feminineleaf; sheet (piece of paper)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of folha
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. órgão da planta, geralmente verde e responsável pela fotossíntese (na maioria das vezes), composta de limbo (estrutura laminar), pecíolo (haste que liga o limbo ao caule) e, algumas vezes, bainha (invólucro alongado na base do pecíolo) 2. vértice sobre o qual incide apenas uma aresta 3. pedaço de papel em branco, vazio 4. cada uma das unidades de uma impressão, cujas faces chamam-se páginas
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 folha
- folhas plural
- fôlha alternative
- fôlhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to folha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is folha in Portuguese?
folha appears 49 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).