boleia
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from French volée. Doublet of vólei.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]boleia f (plural boleias)
- (Portugal) ride (in a vehicle, for free)
- Synonym: (Brazil) carona
- 2009, Alfredo Rosendo Machado, Não Desistas, letrasdouro, →ISBN, page 60:
- Só nos restava uma saída: alugar um táxi ou pedir boleia. Optámos pela boleia, porque não tínhamos dinheiro para o táxi e a distância ainda era razoável. O que parece incrível é que a única boleia que se nos ofereceu foi na carroça de um ...
- We only had one way out: to rent a cab or ask for a ride. We chose the ride, because we had no money for the cab and the distance was still reasonable. What seems amazing is that the only ride that was offered to us was in the cart of a ...
- (Brazil) driver's seat
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]boleia
- inflection of bolear:
Further reading
[edit]- “boleia”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “boleia”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “boleia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “boleia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “boleia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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