narval
Portuguese, noun/naʁˈvaw/
narval is spelled N-A-R-V-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 104,744th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Narval is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “narwhal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mamífero cetáceo (Monodon monoceros) pertencente à família Monodontidae, característico das águas frias em…”.
What does narval mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenarwhal
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mamífero cetáceo (Monodon monoceros) pertencente à família Monodontidae, característico das águas frias em torno do círculo polar ártico
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 narval
- narvais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce narval?
- Brazil /naʁˈvaw/
- Brazil [naɦˈvaʊ̯]
- /naɾˈvaw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to narval
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is narval in Portuguese?
narval appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).