ninho
Portuguese, noun/ˈnĩ.ɲu/
ninho is spelled N-I-N-H-O (5 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 7,515th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ninho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nest (bird-built structure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “construção onde as aves põem os ovos e criam os filhotes”.
What does ninho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenest (bird-built structure)
- 2
masculinenest (place used by any animal for depositing eggs and hatching young)
- 3
masculinehome
- 4
Brazilcolloquialmasculineellipsis of leite ninho (“powdered milk”)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. construção onde as aves põem os ovos e criam os filhotes
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 ninho
- ninhos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ninho?
- Brazil /ˈnĩ.ɲu/
- Brazil [ˈnĩ.j̃u]
- Portugal /ˈni.ɲu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ninho
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ninho in Portuguese?
ninho appears 9.8 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).