saponina
Portuguese, noun/sa.poˈnĩ.nɐ/
saponina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “saponin (steroid glycoside)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “substância extraída da raiz da saponária que faz espuma como o sabão”.
What does saponina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesaponin (steroid glycoside)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. substância extraída da raiz da saponária que faz espuma como o sabão
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 saponina
- saponinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saponina?
- Brazil /sa.poˈnĩ.nɐ/
- Portugal /sɐ.puˈni.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to saponina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saponina in Portuguese?
saponina appears about once in every 47 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).