urna
Portuguese, noun/ˈuʁ.nɐ/
urna is spelled U-R-N-A (4 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,007th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Urna is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “ballot box (a sealed box into which a voter puts his voting slip)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “caixa onde se guardam as cinzas de um morto ou seu cadáver”.
What does urna mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineballot box (a sealed box into which a voter puts his voting slip)
- 2
feminineurn (vessel for ashes of a deceased person)
- 3
femininecoffin (box in which a dead person is buried)
- 4
archaicfemininea vase for water
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. caixa onde se guardam as cinzas de um morto ou seu cadáver 2. caixa onde se colocam os votos em uma eleição 3. a urna eletrônica, aparelho eletrônico usada por eleitores para votarem 4. tipo de folha modificada nas plantas carnívoras
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 urna
- urnas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce urna?
- Brazil /ˈuʁ.nɐ/
- Brazil [ˈuɦ.nɐ]
- /ˈuɾ.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to urna
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is urna in Portuguese?
urna appears 3.4 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).