míngua
Portuguese, noun
míngua is spelled M-Í-N-G-U-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 92,647th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Míngua is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “decrease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of minguar. Without its accent, mingua is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato e efeito de minguar”.
What does míngua mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedecrease
- 2
femininelack
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato e efeito de minguar 2. falta, carência 3. diminuição, decrescimento 4. imperfeição, defeito
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 míngua
- mínguas plural
- mingua alternative Portugal
- míngua alternative Brazil
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is míngua in Portuguese?
míngua appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).