imbuia
Portuguese, noun
imbuia is spelled I-M-B-U-I-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 80,231st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imbuia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “imbuia (Ocotea porosa, a tree)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, imbuía is a different word: “first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of imbuir”.
What does imbuia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineimbuia (Ocotea porosa, a tree)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of imbuir
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado de Santa Catarina
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 imbuia
- imbuias plural
- embuia alternative obsolete
- embúia alternative obsolete
- embuya alternative obsolete
- imbúia alternative obsolete
- imbuya alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is imbuia in Portuguese?
imbuia appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).