molenga
Portuguese, noun/moˈlẽ.ɡɐ/
molenga is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a weak or lazy person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa molenga”.
What does molenga mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinea weak or lazy person
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineweak or lazy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que faz as coisas devagar e sem empenho; indolente, mole, preguiçoso, moleirão 2. que não tem determinação, firmeza, resolução; fraco, frouxo, covarde
noun: 1. pessoa molenga
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 molenga
- molengas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce molenga?
- Brazil /moˈlẽ.ɡɐ/
- Portugal /muˈlẽ.ɡɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to molenga
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is molenga in Portuguese?
molenga appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).