maçã

Meaning

apple (fruit)

Hyphenated as

ma‧çã

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maˈsɐ̃/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla Mattiāna (literally “apples of Mattium”), though some theorize that Mattiāna was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.
Cognate with Galician mazá, Aragonese and Asturian mazana, Mirandese maçana and Spanish manzana (Old Spanish maçana).

Sentences

Muita maçã vermelha caiu no chão .

A lot of red apple fell to the ground.