mágoa
Portuguese, noun
mágoa is spelled M-Á-G-O-A (5 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,080th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mágoa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “grief; sorrow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, magoa is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mancha devida a contusão”.
What does mágoa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegrief; sorrow
- 2
feminineresentment
- 3
femininegrievance
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. mancha devida a contusão 2. tristeza
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 mágoa
- mágoas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mágoa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mágoa in Portuguese?
mágoa appears 2.6 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).