navalha

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Galician

Noun

navalha f (plural navalhas, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of navalla

Further reading

  • “navalha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

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navalha

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese navalla, inherited from Vulgar Latin *navac(u)la, from Latin novācula (“a sharp knife, dagger, razor”). Doublet of novácula. Cognate with Catalan and Galician navalla, Mirandese nabalha and Spanish navaja.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -aʎɐ
  • Hyphenation: na‧va‧lha

Noun

navalha f (plural navalhas)

  1. straight razor
    • 2013, António Lobo Antunes, Somos unha com carne, não somos?, Leya, →ISBN:
      Colabora com uns rapazes russos, deve em quando pede dinheiro às pessoas com uma navalha persuasiva, cheia de argumentos: parece que a navalha torna as pessoas generosas, sensíveis às razões do meu afilhado.
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  2. (Brazil, idiomatic) one who cannot drive cars well

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