fumaça
Portuguese, noun/fuˈma.sɐ/
fumaça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “smoke (particles and vapor/vapour given off by burning material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “os gases e vapores visíveis que exalam de um corpo em chamas”.
What does fumaça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesmoke (particles and vapor/vapour given off by burning material)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. os gases e vapores visíveis que exalam de um corpo em chamas 2. coisa irrelevante, passageira
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 fumaça
- fumaças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fumaça?
- Brazil /fuˈma.sɐ/
- Portugal /fuˈma.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 fumaça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fumaça in Portuguese?
fumaça appears 17 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).