papagaio

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese papagay (“parrot”) (c. 1300, Dom Dinis), from Old Occitan papagay (“parrot”), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [papaˈɣajʊ]

Noun

papagaio m (plural papagaios)

1. parrot

References

• “papagai” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “papagai” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “papagaio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese papagay (“parrot”), from Old Occitan papagay (“parrot”), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.paˈɡaj.u/ [pa.paˈɡaɪ̯.u]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.paˈɡaj.u/ [pa.paˈɡaɪ̯.u]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.paˈɡaj.o/ [pa.paˈɡaɪ̯.o]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.pɐˈɡaj.u/ [pɐ.pɐˈɣaj.u]

• Rhymes: -aju
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧gai‧o

Noun

papagaio m (plural papagaios, feminine papagaia, feminine plural papagaias)

1. parrot (bird)
2. parroter
3. kite (of paper)

   Synonym: (Madeira) joeira

Derived terms

• papaguear

Further reading

• “papagaio” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.