folia
Portuguese, noun
folia is spelled F-O-L-I-A (5 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 12,013th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Folia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “merrymaking. merriment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of foliar. With a tilde, foliã is a different word: “female equivalent of folião”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “antiga dança portuguesa rápida e animada, acompanhada por adufes e pandeiros”.
What does folia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemerrymaking. merriment
- 2
femininefolia
- 3
femininean old Portuguese dance
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of folião
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of folião
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. antiga dança portuguesa rápida e animada, acompanhada por adufes e pandeiros 2. uma melodia de folia (dança) que se tornou tema de um grande número de variações no período barroco 3. espetáculo festivo 4. pândega
noun: 1. feminino de folião: aquela que gosta de folia, farras 2. aquela que comemora o carnaval
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 folia
- folias plural
- foliãs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to folia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is folia in Portuguese?
folia appears 5.1 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).