tantã
Portuguese, noun
tantã is spelled T-A-N-T-Ã (5 letters) and appears 66 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,465th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tantã is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “a crazy person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its tilde, tanta is a different word: “feminine singular of tanto”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “instrumento de percussão que consiste de um tipo de tambor de formato cilíndrico ou afunilado (tipo…”.
What does tantã mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialfemininemasculinegaga; crazy; nuts
noun
- 1
colloquialfemininemasculinea crazy person
noun
- 1
masculinetam-tam (a kind of flat gong)
- 2
masculinehand drum used in small samba and pagode ensembles
determiner
- 1
femininefeminine singular of tanto
pronoun
- 1
femininefeminine singular of tanto
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que não goza das faculdades mentais em um estado são
noun: 1. instrumento de percussão que consiste de um tipo de tambor de formato cilíndrico ou afunilado (tipo atabaque), com o fuste em madeira ou alumínio
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 tantã
- tantãs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tantã
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tantã in Portuguese?
tantã appears 66 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).