baleia
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: ba‧lei‧a
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited 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
[edit]baleia f (plural baleias)
- whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones)
- (colloquial, derogatory) landwhale (an obese person)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]baleia
- inflection of balear:
Further reading
[edit]- “baleia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Tetum
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese baleia.
Noun
[edit]baleia
- whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones)
References
[edit]- “baleia”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- Portuguese derogatory terms
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- pt:Whales
- Tetum terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Tetum terms derived from Portuguese
- Tetum lemmas
- Tetum nouns
- tet:Whales