zarolho
Portuguese, noun/zaˈɾo.ʎu/
zarolho is spelled Z-A-R-O-L-H-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 105,827th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zarolho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “an one-eyed person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does zarolho mean in English?
adjective
- 1
one-eyed (having only one functioning eye)
- 2
squinty, wall-eyed, crosseyed (suffering from strabismus)
- 3
odd-looking; strange; weird
noun
- 1
masculinean one-eyed person
- 2
masculinea cross-eyed person
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que desvia os olhos em diferente direção, vesgo 2. que apenas vê por um olho, torto
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 zarolho
- zarolha feminine
- zarolhos masculine plural
- zarolhas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zarolho?
- Brazil /zaˈɾo.ʎu/
- Portugal /zɐˈɾo.ʎu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is zarolho in Portuguese?
zarolho appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).