amurada

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.muˈɾa.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.muˈɾa.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.muˈɾa.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.muˈɾa.dɐ/ [ɐ.muˈɾa.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation: a‧mu‧ra‧da

Noun

amurada f (plural amuradas)

1. (nautical) bulwark (the planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale)
   • 1965, Amália Rodrigues, Fado Português:

     O Fado nasceu um dia, / quando o vento mal bulia / e o céu o mar prolongava, / na amurada dum veleiro, / no peito dum marinheiro / que, estando triste, cantava.

     Fado was born one day, / when the wind was blowing hard / and the sky was extending the sea, / in the bulwark of a ship, / in the chest of a sailor / who, being sad, was singing.

Participle

amurada f sg

1. feminine singular of amurado

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amuˈɾada/ [a.muˈɾa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: a‧mu‧ra‧da

Noun

amurada f (plural amuradas)

1. (nautical) bulwark (the planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale)

Participle

amurada f sg

1. feminine singular of amurado

Further reading

• “amurada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28