baleia
Portuguese
editPronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ba‧lei‧a
Etymology 1
editInherited 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
editbaleia 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
editDescendants
edit- Guinea-Bissau Creole: baleia
Etymology 2
editVerb
editbaleia
- inflection of balear:
Categories:
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- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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