golfinho
Portuguese, noun/ɡowˈfĩ.ɲu/
golfinho is spelled G-O-L-F-I-N-H-O (8 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,687th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Golfinho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dolphin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “animal mamífero cetáceo pertencente à família Delphinidae”.
What does golfinho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedolphin
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. animal mamífero cetáceo pertencente à família Delphinidae 2. estilo de natação que caracteriza-se pelo movimento simultâneo das pernas para baixo e para cima 3. indivíduo atarracado
noun: 1. modalidade de golfe jogado em um campo de pequenas dimensões, cujo percurso é entremeado por obstáculos
noun: 1. constelação boreal, que tem forma de golfinho
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 golfinho
- golfinhos plural
- golfim alternative
- golphinho alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce golfinho?
- Brazil /ɡowˈfĩ.ɲu/
- Brazil [ɡoʊ̯ˈfĩ.j̃u]
- Portugal /ɡolˈfi.ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to golfinho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is golfinho in Portuguese?
golfinho appears 2.1 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).