pendura
Portuguese, noun
pendura is spelled P-E-N-D-U-R-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 42,839th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pendura is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “the act of hanging something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of pendurar. With an accent, pendurá is a different word: “apocopic form of pendurar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aquilo que está pendurado”.
What does pendura mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethe act of hanging something
- 2
femininethat which is hanged
noun
- 1
Portugalfemininemasculinethe person who sits in the front passenger seat of a vehicle, next to the driver
- 2
Portugalfemininemasculinesomeone who travels attached to the outside of a tram in order to evade fare
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
apocopic form of pendurar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aquilo que está pendurado 2. ação de pendurar 3. cacho de uvas que é guardado pendurado num lugar seco para ser conservado
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 pendura
- penduras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pendura in Portuguese?
pendura appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).