mata
Portuguese, noun
mata is spelled M-A-T-A (4 letters) and appears 68 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,429th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mata is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “woods, forest (collection of trees)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of matar. With an accent, matá is a different word: “apocopic form of matar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “porção de terreno repleto de árvores silvestres”.
What does mata mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewoods, forest (collection of trees)
noun
- 1
Portugalmasculinedodgeball
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
apocopic form of matar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
- 2
eye dialect spelling of matar, representing Brazil Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. porção de terreno repleto de árvores silvestres 2. árvore 3. arbusto 4. grande quantidade de coisas semelhantes
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Rio Grande do Sul
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 mata
- matas plural
- matta alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mata
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mata in Portuguese?
mata appears 68 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).