língua
Portuguese, noun
língua is spelled L-Í-N-G-U-A (6 letters) and appears 178 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 534th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Língua is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “tongue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, lingua is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “órgão da boca, auxiliar da mastigação e deglutição e responsável pela articulação dos sons; órgão da fala”.
What does língua mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetongue
- 2
femininelanguage
Língua portuguesa
noun
- 1
archaicfemininemasculineinterpreter (person who converts spoken language in real time)
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of língua
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. órgão da boca, auxiliar da mastigação e deglutição e responsável pela articulação dos sons; órgão da fala 2. linguagem, idioma, conjunto de expressões sonoras com um significado convencional partilhado por um grupo de seres humanos
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 língua
- linguas plural
- línguas plural
- lingua alternative
- lingoa alternative dated
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to língua
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is língua in Portuguese?
língua appears 178 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).