profana
Portuguese, verb/pɾoˈfɐ̃.nɐ/
profana is spelled P-R-O-F-A-N-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,608th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Profana is a Portuguese verb meaning “third-person singular present indicative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of profano. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo profanar”.
What does profana mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of profano
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo profanar
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 profana?
- Brazil /pɾoˈfɐ̃.nɐ/
- Portugal /pɾuˈfɐ.nɐ/
- Portugal /pɾuˈfa.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is profana in Portuguese?
profana appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).