turfa
Portuguese, noun/ˈtuʁ.fɐ/
turfa is spelled T-U-R-F-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Turfa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “peat (soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “material de origem vegetal, parcialmente decomposto, encontrado em camadas; é formada principalmente por…”.
What does turfa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepeat (soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. material de origem vegetal, parcialmente decomposto, encontrado em camadas; é formada principalmente por musgo, mas também de juncos, árvores, etc.
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 turfa
- turfas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce turfa?
- Brazil /ˈtuʁ.fɐ/
- Brazil [ˈtuh.fɐ]
- /ˈtuɾ.fɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to turfa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is turfa in Portuguese?
turfa appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).