tabanca
Portuguese, noun/taˈbɐ̃.kɐ/
tabanca is spelled T-A-B-A-N-C-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese, the 118,367th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tabanca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “village” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “povoação ou localidade, por vezes fortificada, em certos pontos de África”.
What does tabanca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevillage
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. povoação ou localidade, por vezes fortificada, em certos pontos de África
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 tabanca
- tabancas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tabanca?
- Brazil /taˈbɐ̃.kɐ/
- Portugal /tɐˈbɐ̃.kɐ/
- Portugal [tɐˈβɐ̃.kɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tabanca in Portuguese?
tabanca appears about once in every 15 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).