How to Say "Peach" in Portuguese

pêssego

/ˈpe.se.ɡu/masculine

The English word "peach" is pêssego in Portuguese.

pêssego is a masculine noun used to refer to the fruit. To describe the color peach, you can use cor pêssego or the common phrase cor de pêssego.

Meaning: fruit (noun)

Related words

The plural form of pêssego is pêssegos.

The word has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable. The IPA is /ˈpe.se.ɡu/.

If you want to describe someone as being a 'peach' in the English sense of being a lovely person, you cannot use pêssego in Portuguese.
The word pêssego shares an ancient root with the English word 'Persian', as the fruit was originally thought to hail from 'Persia'.
Portuguese has a 'doublet' for this word, pérsico, which is a more formal or botanical term for the same fruit.

O pêssego caiu da árvore.
The peach has fallen from the tree.
This sentence shows the use of pêssego to describe an action involving a fruit falling from a tree.
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Tom está comendo um pêssego.
Tom is eating a peach.
This sentence demonstrates the use of pêssego when describing someone eating the fruit.
Tatoeba #12553306 by laetitiamg, translation #8743420 by Solana
"O que é isto?" "É um pêssego."
"What's this?" "It's a peach."
This sentence illustrates how to identify the fruit pêssego in a simple question and answer.
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Eu adoro comer um pêssego fresquinho no verão.
I love eating a fresh peach in the summer.
3 more sentences on Tatoeba

Felipe and Camila are sitting in a kitchen during a snack break.

Sources

Wiktionary, “peach” translations and entries pêssego, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
Word origins: Wiktionary entries pêssego, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.

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