querosene
Portuguese, noun/ke.ɾoˈze.ni/
querosene is spelled Q-U-E-R-O-S-E-N-E (9 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 26,665th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Querosene is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “kerosene (fuel oil)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “líquido produzido pela destilação do petróleo, formado por uma mistura de hidrocarbonetos alifáticos…”.
What does querosene mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekerosene (fuel oil)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. líquido produzido pela destilação do petróleo, formado por uma mistura de hidrocarbonetos alifáticos, naftênicos e aromáticos, é utilizado como combustível na aviação, solventes e como base de alguns inseticidas
verb: 1. terceira pessoa do singular do presente do conjuntivo/subjuntivo do verbo querosenar 2. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo afirmativo do verbo querosenar 3. terceira pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo querosenar
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 querosene
- querosenes plural
- kerosene alternative obsolete
- kerozene alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce querosene?
- Brazil /ke.ɾoˈze.ni/
- Portugal /kɛ.ɾɔˈzɛ.nɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to querosene
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is querosene in Portuguese?
querosene appears 1.5 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).