serval
Portuguese, noun/seʁˈvaw/
serval is spelled S-E-R-V-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 98,532nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Serval is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “serval (Leptailurus serval)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mamífero carnívoro da família dos felídeos; mede cerca de 85 cm, mais 40 cm de cauda”.
What does serval mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineserval (Leptailurus serval)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mamífero carnívoro da família dos felídeos; mede cerca de 85 cm, mais 40 cm de cauda
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 serval
- servais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce serval?
- Brazil /seʁˈvaw/
- Brazil [seɦˈvaʊ̯]
- /seɾˈvaw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to serval
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is serval in Portuguese?
serval appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).