Praia

See also: praia

English

Etymology

From Portuguese praia (“beach”).

Named after Praia de Santa Maria which is now Praia da Gamboa (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə

Proper noun

Praia

1. The capital city of Cape Verde.
2. A municipality of Cape Verde.

Related terms

• praiense

Translations

capital of Cape Verde

• Afrikaans: Praia
• Arabic: بْرَايَا f (brāyā)
• Armenian: Պրայա (Praya)
• Belarusian: Пра́я f (Prája)
• Bulgarian: Пра́я f (Prája)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普拉亞／普拉亚 (zh) (Pǔlāyà)

• Danish: Praia
• Dutch: Praia n
• Finnish: Praia
• Galician: Praia (gl)
• Georgian: პრაია (ṗraia)
• Greek: Πράια (Práia)
• Hebrew: פראיה
• Hindi: प्राया (prāyā)
• Irish: Praia
• Japanese: プライア (ja) (Puraia)
• Kabuverdianu: Praia
• Khmer: ប្រាយ៉ា (km) (praayaa)
• Korean: 프라이아 (Peuraia)
• Macedonian: Праја f (Praja)
• Polish: Praia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Praia (pt) f
• Russian: Пра́я (ru) f (Prája)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Праја f

  Roman: Praia f

• Spanish: Praia (es)
• Thai: ไปรอา
• Ukrainian: Пра́я f (Prája)
• Vietnamese: Prai-a

Anagrams

• apair

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Praia

1. Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)

Hunsrik

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese praia.

Cognate with Nheengatu praya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpraɪ̯a/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯a
• Hyphenation: Prai‧a

Noun

Praia f (nominative plural Praias)

1. beach

Declension

Declension of Praia

	singular		plural
	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative/accusative	die	Praia	die	Praias
dative	där/de	Praia	den/de	Praias

Kabuverdianu

Proper noun

Praia

1. (Santiago) Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)
2. (Santiago) Praia (a municipality of Cape Verde)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Praia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpra.ja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: Pra‧ia

Proper noun

Praia f

1. Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)

Declension

Declension of Praia

	singular
nominative	Praia
genitive	Prai
dative	Prai
accusative	Praię
instrumental	Praią
locative	Prai
vocative	Praio

Derived terms

adjective

• prajański

 

nouns

• prajanin
• prajanka

 

Further reading

• Praia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.ɐ/ [ˈpɾaɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.ɐ/ [ˈpɾaɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.a/ [ˈpɾaɪ̯.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.ɐ/

• Homophone: praia
• Hyphenation: Prai‧a

Proper noun

Praia f

1. Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)
2. Praia (a municipality of Cape Verde)

Related terms

• praiense

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprai̯a]

Proper noun

Praia f (genitive singular Praie, declension pattern of ulica)

1. Praia (the capital of Cape Verde)

References

• “Praia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024