mameluco
Portuguese, noun/ma.meˈlu.ku/
mameluco is spelled M-A-M-E-L-U-C-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 118,367th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mameluco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “mameluke (member of a military regime in mediaeval and early modern Egypt and Syria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mestiço de índio com branco”.
What does mameluco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemameluke (member of a military regime in mediaeval and early modern Egypt and Syria)
- 2
masculinemameluco (person born of a white father and American Indian mother)
adjective
- 1
mameluco
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mestiço de índio com branco
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 mameluco
- mamelucos plural
- mameluca feminine
- mamelucas feminine plural
- mamaluco alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mameluco?
- Brazil /ma.meˈlu.ku/
- Portugal /mɐ.mɨˈlu.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mameluco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mameluco in Portuguese?
mameluco appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).