nasal
Portuguese, noun/naˈzaw/
nasal is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “nasal consonant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fonema ou som anasalado”.
What does nasal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinenasal
noun
- 1
femininenasal consonant
noun
- 1
masculinenasal bone
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. relativo ao nariz 2. em cuja articulação uma parte da corrente de ar expirado proveniente da laringe passa pelas fossas nasais, devido ao abaixamento da úvula e do véu palatino, causando uma vibração intensa nas fossas nasais (diz-se de fonema, som etc.)
noun: 1. fonema ou som anasalado
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 nasal
- nasais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nasal?
- Brazil /naˈzaw/
- Brazil [naˈzaʊ̯]
- Portugal /nɐˈzal/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nasal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nasal in Portuguese?
nasal appears 2.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).