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maquia

Portuguese, noun/maˈki.ɐ/

maquia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “amount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of maquiar.

What does maquia mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineamount

  2. 2

    femininemaquia, a traditional unit of dry volume equivalent to 0.8–1.2 litres in different 19th-century contexts

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of maquia

  • maquias plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce maquia?

  • Brazil /maˈki.ɐ/
  • Portugal /mɐˈki.ɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is maquia in Portuguese?

maquia appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).