juá
Portuguese, noun/ʒuˈa/
juá is spelled J-U-Á (3 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 81,082nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Juá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “juazeiro (Sarcomphalus joazeiro)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “árvore típica da caatinga, cujo nome científico é Ziziphus joazeiro”.
What does juá mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejuazeiro (Sarcomphalus joazeiro)
- 2
masculinefruit of the juazeiro
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. árvore típica da caatinga, cujo nome científico é Ziziphus joazeiro 2. o fruto dessa árvore
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 juá
- juás plural
- joá alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce juá?
- Brazil /ʒuˈa/
- Brazil /ˈʒwa/
- Portugal /ˈʒwa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is juá in Portuguese?
juá appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).