lamúria
Portuguese, noun
lamúria is spelled L-A-M-Ú-R-I-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 106,884th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lamúria is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “lamentation, whine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, lamuria is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “lamento; queixume; choradeira”.
What does lamúria mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelamentation, whine
- 2
femininemonotonous, tiresome, droning speech, often to obtain something
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. lamento; queixume; choradeira
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 lamúria
- lamúrias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lamúria in Portuguese?
lamúria appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).