mortalha
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin mortālia, mortuālia (“mourning weeds”). Cognate of Spanish mortaja.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aʎɐ
- Hyphenation: mor‧ta‧lha
Noun
[edit]mortalha f (plural mortalhas)
- related to posthumous practices
- (religion) clothing used by religious people, especially white clothing used in processions
- (informal) cigarette paper
- a white sign on the forehead of some horses
Related terms
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- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎɐ/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Religion
- Portuguese informal terms
- pt:Burial
- pt:Smoking