provisão
Portuguese, noun/pɾo.viˈzɐ̃w̃/
provisão is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “provision (goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “prescrição”.
What does provisão mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprovision (goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use)
- 2
feminineprovision (the act of providing)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. prescrição
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 provisão
- provisões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce provisão?
- Brazil /pɾo.viˈzɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [pɾo.viˈzɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /pɾu.viˈzɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to provisão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is provisão in Portuguese?
provisão appears 1.9 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).