sapão
Portuguese, noun/saˈpɐ̃w̃/
sapão is spelled S-A-P-Ã-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 69,446th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sapão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sapan (Biancaea sappan, syn. Caesalpinia sappan), a tree of southeast Asia)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an augmentative of sapo. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “árvore (Caesalpinia sappan) leguminosa, semelhante ao pau-brasil, nativa da Ásia e usada na tinturaria; a…”.
What does sapão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesapan (Biancaea sappan, syn. Caesalpinia sappan), a tree of southeast Asia)
noun
- 1
masculineaugmentative of sapo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. árvore (Caesalpinia sappan) leguminosa, semelhante ao pau-brasil, nativa da Ásia e usada na tinturaria; a madeira dessa árvore; pau-preto 2. o mesmo que pau-brasil (Caesalpinia echinata)
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 sapão
- sapões plural
- sappan alternative
- sapan alternative
- sapang alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sapão?
- Brazil /saˈpɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [saˈpɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /sɐˈpɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sapão in Portuguese?
sapão appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).