traíra
Portuguese, noun
traíra is spelled T-R-A-Í-R-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,402nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traíra is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “trahira (Hoplias malabaricus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of trair. With an accent, trairá is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of trair”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peixe carnívoro de água doce da família dos caracídeos (Hoplias malabaricus)”.
What does traíra mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininetrahira (Hoplias malabaricus)
noun
- 1
Brazilcolloquialderogatoryfemininemasculinebetrayer; traitor
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of trair
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of trair
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peixe carnívoro de água doce da família dos caracídeos (Hoplias malabaricus) 2. variedade de réptil 3. traidor
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 traíra
- traíras plural
- trahira alternative
- trahyra alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is traíra in Portuguese?
traíra appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).