menarca
Portuguese, noun/meˈnaʁ.kɐ/
menarca is spelled M-E-N-A-R-C-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 114,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Menarca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “menarche (first menstruation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “primeira menstruação”.
What does menarca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemenarche (first menstruation)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. primeira menstruação
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 menarca
- menarcas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce menarca?
- Brazil /meˈnaʁ.kɐ/
- Brazil [meˈnah.kɐ]
- /meˈnaɾ.kɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to menarca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is menarca in Portuguese?
menarca appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).