heroína
Portuguese, noun
heroína is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “heroine; female equivalent of herói” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, heroina is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “droga opioide natural ou sintética, produzida e derivada do ópio, extraído da cápsula (fruto) de algumas…”.
What does heroína mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineheroine; female equivalent of herói
noun
- 1
feminineheroin
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of heroína
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. droga opioide natural ou sintética, produzida e derivada do ópio, extraído da cápsula (fruto) de algumas espécies de papoula
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 heroína
- heroínas plural
- herói masculine
- heróis masculine plural
- heroina alternative
- heroinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to heroína
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is heroína in Portuguese?
heroína appears 6.8 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).