tavão
Portuguese, noun/taˈvɐ̃w̃/
tavão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “horsefly (any fly of the family Tabanidae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inseto voador, grande mosca da família Tabanidae, que pica e incomoda o gado e as pessoas”.
What does tavão mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehorsefly (any fly of the family Tabanidae)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. inseto voador, grande mosca da família Tabanidae, que pica e incomoda o gado e as pessoas
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 tavão
- tavões plural
- tavãos plural rare
- tabão alternative
- atavão alternative
- atabão alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tavão?
- Brazil /taˈvɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [taˈvɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /tɐˈvɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tavão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tavão in Portuguese?
tavão appears about once in every 85 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).