oásis
Portuguese, noun/oˈa.zis/
oásis is spelled O-Á-S-I-S (5 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,941st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oásis is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “oasis (spring surrounded by vegetation in a desert)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “local, em meio a um deserto, onde há água e vegetação”.
What does oásis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineoasis (spring surrounded by vegetation in a desert)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. local, em meio a um deserto, onde há água e vegetação
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.
How do you pronounce oásis?
- Brazil /oˈa.zis/
- /oˈa.ziʃ/
- Portugal /ɔˈa.ziʃ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to oásis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oásis in Portuguese?
oásis appears 2.4 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).