tabefe
Portuguese, noun/taˈbɛ.fi/
tabefe is spelled T-A-B-E-F-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese, the 109,086th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tabefe is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “dessert made with milk, eggs and sugar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cascudo, tapa, murro”.
What does tabefe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedessert made with milk, eggs and sugar
- 2
masculinewhey (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- 3
informalmasculineslap, smack
Cale a boca ou eu vou te dar um tabefe!
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cascudo, tapa, murro
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 tabefe
- tabefes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tabefe?
- Brazil /taˈbɛ.fi/
- Portugal /tɐˈbɛ.fɨ/
- Portugal [tɐˈβɛ.fɨ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tabefe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tabefe in Portuguese?
tabefe appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).