mainha
Portuguese, noun
mainha is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of mãezinha” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, mãinha is a different word: “alternative form of mãezinha”.
What does mainha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of mãezinha
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of mãezinha
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mãe, mamãe
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 mainha
- mãinhas plural
- mainhas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mainha in Portuguese?
mainha appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).