tarefa
Galician
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittarefa f (plural tarefas)
Further reading
edit- “tarefa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Arabic طَرِيحَة (ṭarīḥa, “endeavor”), from the Classical Arabic root طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Cognate with Galician tarefa and Spanish tarea.
Pronunciation
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Noun
edittarefa f (plural tarefas)
- job, task
- Tarefa apressada, tarefa estragada.
- Rushed task, ruined task.
- burden, chore
- (computing) job
- (Brazil) Clipping of tarefa de casa (“homework”).
- Estou fazendo minha tarefa.
- I am doing my homework.
- (regional) vessel where oil and rose water flow from the fields (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Synonyms
edit- (job): emprego, trabalho
- (homework): dever de casa, lição de casa
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tarefa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom Portuguese tarefa. Doublet of tarea.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittarefa f (plural tarefas)
- (Argentina, chiefly Northeastern Argentina) harvest of yerba mate leaves
Categories:
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/ɛfa
- Rhymes:Galician/ɛfa/3 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛfɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛfɐ/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛfa
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛfa/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- pt:Computing
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese clippings
- Regional Portuguese
- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Spanish terms derived from Portuguese
- Spanish doublets
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/efa
- Rhymes:Spanish/efa/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Argentinian Spanish