ria
Portuguese, noun/ˈʁi.ɐ/
ria is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “ria (rugged coastal inlet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of rir. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “enseada estreita, produto do alagamento de um vale fluvial em épocas geológicas pretéritas”.
What does ria mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineria (rugged coastal inlet)
- 2
femininebranch; inlet (body of water extending from or flowing into a larger one)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
- 2
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 3
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. enseada estreita, produto do alagamento de um vale fluvial em épocas geológicas pretéritas
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 ria
- rias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ria?
- Brazil /ˈʁi.ɐ/
- Brazil [ˈhi.ɐ]
- /ˈʁi.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ria
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ria in Portuguese?
ria appears 6.5 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).