perfume
Portuguese, noun/peʁˈfũ.mi/
perfume is spelled P-E-R-F-U-M-E (7 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perfume is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “perfume (pleasant smell)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of perfumar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aroma que emana de algo, por exemplo, dos corpos ou plantas e que geralmente é agradável”.
What does perfume mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineperfume (pleasant smell)
- 2
masculineperfume (substance providing a pleasant smell)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aroma que emana de algo, por exemplo, dos corpos ou plantas e que geralmente é agradável 2. composição preparada combinando diferentes essências para se obter um odor desejado e específico 3. suave
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 perfume
- perfumes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perfume?
- Brazil /peʁˈfũ.mi/
- Brazil [pehˈfũ.mi]
- /peɾˈfũ.mi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to perfume
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is perfume in Portuguese?
perfume appears 14 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).