piaba
Portuguese, noun
piaba is spelled P-I-A-B-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 100,600th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piaba is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “fish of the genus Schizodon or Leporinus native to South America” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “nome comum a vários peixes caracídeo”.
What does piaba mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininefish of the genus Schizodon or Leporinus native to South America
- 2
Brazilfemininesmall fry
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nome comum a vários peixes caracídeo 2. coisa de pouca importância 3. derrota, ato de ser derrotado comumente de uma forma bastante inferiorizada
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 piaba
- piabas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is piaba in Portuguese?
piaba appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).