folhado
Portuguese, noun/foˈʎa.du/
folhado is spelled F-O-L-H-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 66,709th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Folhado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “foliage, leafage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of folhar.
What does folhado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
leafy
- 2
flaky
noun
- 1
masculinefoliage, leafage
- 2
masculinepuff pastry (pastry that is made by repeatedly folding the rolled pastry into many layers)
- 3
masculinelaurestine (Viburnum tinus, a shrub of southern Europe)
- 4
masculineClethra arborea, a tree of Macaronesia
verb
- 1
past participle of folhar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of folhado
- folhada feminine
- folhados masculine plural
- folhadas feminine plural
- mais folhado comparative
- o mais folhado superlative
- folhadíssimo superlative
- folhadinho diminutive
- folhadão augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce folhado?
- Brazil /foˈʎa.du/
- Portugal /fuˈʎa.du/
- Portugal [fuˈʎa.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is folhado in Portuguese?
folhado appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).