funeral
Portuguese, noun/fu.neˈɾaw/
funeral is spelled F-U-N-E-R-A-L (7 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,384th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Funeral is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “funeral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cerimônia de enterro”.
What does funeral mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefuneral (ceremony to honour and bury a deceased person)
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinefuneral; funerary (relating to a funeral)
- 2
femininemasculinefuneral; gloomy; dreary
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. fúnebre
noun: 1. cerimônia de enterro
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 funeral
- funerais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce funeral?
- Brazil /fu.neˈɾaw/
- Brazil [fu.neˈɾaʊ̯]
- Portugal /fu.nɨˈɾal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to funeral
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is funeral in Portuguese?
funeral appears 10 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).