melanina
Portuguese, noun/me.laˈnĩ.nɐ/
melanina is spelled M-E-L-A-N-I-N-A (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Melanina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “melanin (natural dark skin pigment)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pigmento na forma de proteína, responsável pela cor dos fios de cabelo, da pele, das unhas e cerdas de pelos”.
What does melanina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemelanin (natural dark skin pigment)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pigmento na forma de proteína, responsável pela cor dos fios de cabelo, da pele, das unhas e cerdas de pelos
noun: 1. prenome feminino
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 melanina
- melaninas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce melanina?
- Brazil /me.laˈnĩ.nɐ/
- Portugal /mɨ.lɐˈni.nɐ/
- Portugal /mɨ.lɐ.ˈni.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to melanina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is melanina in Portuguese?
melanina appears 1.1 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).