lichia
Portuguese, noun
lichia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “lychee (the tree Litchi chinensis)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, líchia is a different word: “European Portuguese standard form of lichia”.
What does lichia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelychee (the tree Litchi chinensis)
- 2
femininelychee (the fruit of this tree)
noun
- 1
feminineEuropean Portuguese standard form of lichia
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. árvore da família das Sapindáceas originária da China 2. 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 lichia
- lichias plural
- líchia alternative Portugal
- lichi alternative Portugal
- litchi alternative Portugal
- lechia alternative Brazil
- líchias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to lichia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lichia in Portuguese?
lichia appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).