baleia

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Portuguese

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baleia (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ba‧lei‧a

Etymology 1

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

baleia f (plural baleias)

  1. whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones)
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) landwhale (an obese person)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: baleia
  • → Tetum: baleia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

baleia

  1. inflection of balear:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese baleia.

Noun

baleia

  1. whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones)

References

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