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sinal

Portuguese, noun/siˈnaw/

sinal is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “sign; mark; trace (a visible or otherwise perceivable indication of something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estrutura na qual uma mensagem é enviada”.

What does sinal mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesign; mark; trace (a visible or otherwise perceivable indication of something)

    Isso é um sinal claro dos problemas que virão.

  2. 2

    masculinemark (a blemish, stain, scratch, scar or similar on a surface, especially on the skin)

    Ele voltou da guerra com o rosto cheio de sinais.

  3. 3

    masculinesignal (a visual or audible indication made to give notice of some occurrence, command or danger)

    Espere pelo meu sinal para atacar.

  4. 4

    masculinesign; gesture (a motion of the hands or body used to express something)

    Faça o sinal da cruz.

  5. 5

    masculinesign (a linguistic unit of a sign language)

    O sinal IGREJA é composto dos sinais CASA e CRUZ.

  6. 6

    masculinename sign; sign name (a sign-language sign that identifies a person)

    Você tem sinal?

  7. 7

    masculineschool bell (bell or siren used to announce the beginning and end of classes in schools)

  8. 8

    masculinetraffic light (set of lights indicating when it is safe to cross a street)

    O sinal está aberto, pode ir.

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. estrutura na qual uma mensagem é enviada 2. símbolo 3. indício 4. sintoma

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 sinal

  • sinais plural
  • signal alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce sinal?

  • Brazil /siˈnaw/
  • Brazil [siˈnaʊ̯]
  • Portugal /siˈnal/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to sinal

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is sinal in Portuguese?

sinal appears 83 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).