Fruits vocabulary Frutas
19 Portuguese words on the topic of fruits — with pictures, audio recordings and example sentences. At the market and supermarket. Note differences between countries.
| Picture | English | Portuguese · Português | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | fruit | a fruta | Edible fruit; the botanical or figurative fruit is o fruto. |
 | apple | a maçã | The ã is nasal: roughly 'mah-SAHN'; note the ç. |
 | orange | a laranja | Also the color orange, just like in English. |
 | banana | a banana | A plantain is banana-da-terra. |
 | strawberry | o morango | |
 | grapes | as uvas | Singular a uva; a raisin is uva-passa. |
 | watermelon | a melancia | Don't confuse melancia (watermelon) with melão (melon). |
 | melon | o melão | Nasal -ão; plural melões. |
 | peach | o pêssego | 🔗 RootStress the first syllable: PÊ-sse-go, from Latin persicum like 'peach'. |
 | pear | a pera | A pear tree is a pereira — hence the common surname Pereira. |
 | pineapple | o abacaxi | Brazil: abacaxi (from Tupi); Brazilian slang: a thorny problem. 🇵🇹 PortugalPortugal: ananás. |
 | mango | a manga | a manga = both 'mango' and 'sleeve'! |
 | lemon | o limão | In Brazil limão usually means the green lime; a yellow lemon is limão-siciliano. |
 | cherry | a cereja | 'The cherry on top' is a cereja do bolo. |
 | coconut | o coco | Mind the stress: coco is coconut, but cocô (stress on the final o) means poop. |
 | pomegranate | a romã | nasal stressed final ã. 🔗 RootFrom Arabic rummān. |
 | fig | o figo | 🔗 RootFrom Latin ficus, like English 'fig'. |
 | date | a tâmara | Stress the first syllable: TÂ-ma-ra. |
 | avocado | o abacate | Don't mix up abacate with abacaxi (pineapple); Brazilians blend it sweet as vitamina de abacate. |