ganês
Portuguese, noun
ganês is spelled G-A-N-Ê-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese, the 132,552nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ganês is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Ghanaian (person from Ghana or of Ghanaian descent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, ganes is a different word: “second-person singular present indicative of ganir”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa nascida em Gana”.
What does ganês mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Ghanaian (of, from, or pertaining to Ghana or the Ghanaian people)
noun
- 1
masculineGhanaian (person from Ghana or of Ghanaian descent)
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of ganir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. natural de Gana
noun: 1. pessoa nascida em Gana
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 ganês
- ganesa feminine
- ganeses masculine plural
- ganesas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ganês
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ganês in Portuguese?
ganês appears about once in every 20 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).