guna
Portuguese, noun/ˈɡũ.nɐ/
guna is spelled G-U-N-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 99,585th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guna is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a chav (relating to a youth from a working class background, aggressive with poor education)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of gunar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa urbana relacionada com ou da faixa societária e/ou localidades que tem menor possibilidades…”.
What does guna mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialderogatorymasculinea chav (relating to a youth from a working class background, aggressive with poor education)
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).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pessoa urbana relacionada com ou da faixa societária e/ou localidades que tem menor possibilidades sócio-financeiras, que possui um certo estilo determinado na expressão oral, nas vestimentas e de se portar que é-lhe peculiar
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 guna
- gunas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce guna?
- Brazil /ˈɡũ.nɐ/
- Portugal /ˈɡu.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is guna in Portuguese?
guna appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).