fumega
Portuguese, noun/fuˈmɛ.ɡɐ/
fumega is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “short and unimportant individual” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of fumegar.
What does fumega mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilderogatoryfemininemasculineshort and unimportant individual
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of fumega
- fumegas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fumega?
- Brazil /fuˈmɛ.ɡɐ/
- Portugal /fuˈmɛ.ɡɐ/
- Portugal [fuˈmɛ.ɣɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fumega in Portuguese?
fumega appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).