merma

Portuguese, noun

merma is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “decrease in value of a good” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a tilde, mermã is a different word: “eye dialect spelling of minha irmã (“my sister”)”.

What does merma mean in English?

noun

1
femininedecrease in value of a good
2
femininetype of tuna unsuitable for consumption.
3
femininea trivial, meaningless thing

noun

as mermã

1
feminineeye dialect spelling of minha irmã (“my sister”)

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

Forms of merma

mermas plural
mermãs plural

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

How common is merma in Portuguese?

merma appears about once in every 91 million words in written Portuguese.

merma0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

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