garota
Portuguese, noun
garota is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “girl, female equivalent of garoto” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of garote. With an accent, garôta is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “criança ou adolescente do sexo ou gênero feminino”.
What does garota mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of garote
- 2
femininegirl, female equivalent of garoto
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of garota; female equivalent of garôto
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. criança ou adolescente do sexo ou gênero feminino 2. namorada 3. jovem
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 garota
- garotas plural
- garoto masculine
- garotos masculine plural
- garôta alternative
- garôtas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to garota
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is garota in Portuguese?
garota appears 79 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).