nagô
Portuguese, noun/naˈɡo/
nagô is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “someone of Yoruba descent, especially a descendant of enslaved Africans brought to Brazil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does nagô mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininemasculinesomeone of Yoruba descent, especially a descendant of enslaved Africans brought to Brazil
noun
- 1
BrazilmasculineYoruba (a Niger-Congo language spoken in western Africa)
adjective
- 1
Brazilfemininemasculinerelating to the Yoruba people or language
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of nagô
- nagôs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nagô?
- Brazil /naˈɡo/
- Portugal /nɐˈɡo/
- Portugal [nɐˈɣo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nagô in Portuguese?
nagô appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).