mascate
Portuguese, noun/masˈka.t͡ʃi/
mascate is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “peddler, hawker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “comerciante ambulante que vai de cidade em cidade vendendo suas mercadorias”.
What does mascate mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinepeddler, hawker
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. comerciante ambulante que vai de cidade em cidade vendendo suas mercadorias
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 mascate
- mascates plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mascate?
- Brazil /masˈka.t͡ʃi/
- /maʃˈka.t͡ʃi/
- Portugal /mɐʃˈka.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mascate
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mascate in Portuguese?
mascate appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).