mafuá
Portuguese, noun/ma.fuˈa/
mafuá is spelled M-A-F-U-Á (5 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese, the 198,857th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mafuá is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “amusement park (place with rides, games and other entertainment attractions)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “parque de diversões ou feira de jogos com música ruidosa transmitida por alto-falantes”.
What does mafuá mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineamusement park (place with rides, games and other entertainment attractions)
- 2
Brazilcolloquialmasculinedance party, rave party
- 3
colloquialmasculinedisorder, mess
noun
- 1
colloquialfeminineParkia pendula (species of evergreen tree in the genus Parkia)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. parque de diversões ou feira de jogos com música ruidosa transmitida por alto-falantes 2. bagunça, confusão, desordem
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 mafuá
- mafuás plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mafuá?
- Brazil /ma.fuˈa/
- Brazil /maˈfwa/
- Portugal /mɐˈfwa/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mafuá in Portuguese?
mafuá appears about once in every 50 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).