baleia
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ba‧lei‧a
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese balẽa, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).
Noun edit
baleia f (plural baleias)
- whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones)
- (derogatory) landwhale (an obese person)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: baleia
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
baleia
- inflection of balear: