rabão
Portuguese, noun/ʁaˈbɐ̃w̃/
rabão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Devil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “Diabo (Lúcifer na mitologia judaico-cristã)”.
What does rabão mean in English?
adjective
- 1
short-tailed, bobtailed
- 2
lacking a tail
noun
- 1
informalmasculineDevil
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Diabo (Lúcifer na mitologia judaico-cristã)
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 rabão
- rabona feminine
- rabões masculine plural
- rabonas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rabão?
- Brazil /ʁaˈbɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [haˈbɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- /ʁaˈbɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rabão in Portuguese?
rabão appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).