saia
Portuguese, noun
saia is spelled S-A-I-A (4 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,719th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a woman's skirt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sair. With an accent, saía is a different word: “first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of sair”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peça de vestuário feminino que fica da cintura para baixo, no geral, até ao joelho”.
What does saia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea woman's skirt
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of sair
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peça de vestuário feminino que fica da cintura para baixo, no geral, até ao joelho 2. suplemento às velas latinas 3. mulheres
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 saia
- saias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to saia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saia in Portuguese?
saia appears 33 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).