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Portuguese
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English
pt
thumb|Countries where Portuguese is an official language. Dark blue = Portuguese is the language of the majority.
Alternative forms
en Portugueese Portugueze both obsolete
misspelling en Portugese
Etymology
From en pt português. en Portugal -ese.
Pronunciation
en /ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/ RP
en en-uk-Portuguese.ogg Hampshire
en /ˌpoɹ.t͡ʃəˈɡiz/ GA,CA
en en-us-Portuguese.ogg US
en /ˈpoɹ.t͡ʃəˌɡiz/ less common
en /ˌpoː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/ AU,NZ
en iːz 3
Adjective
thumb|European Portuguese
thumb|Brazilian Portuguese
Of or pertaining to Portugal.
en Portuguese borders
en 1973 Roger Parkinson The Peninsular War 104 The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.
Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
en European
en Portuguese cuisines
en 1887 George Brown Goode The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States IV 33 In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.
Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
en Romance
en Portuguese verbs
en 1981 Milton Mariano Azevedo A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English 31 The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.
Synonyms
en Portingal obsolete, en Lusitanian
Derived terms
en Indo-Portuguese Portugeezer Portuguesean Portuguesely Portugueseness Portuguesic Portuguesify Portuguesism Portuguese cubit Portuguese Empire Portuguese Guiana Portuguese guitar Portuguese India Portuguese man-of-war Portuguese Opening Portuguese Podengo Portuguese Pointer Portuguese squill
Translations
of or relating to Portugal
Afrikaans: af Portugees
Albanian: sq portugez m, sq portugeze f, sq portugalez m, sq portugaleze f adjectives
Arabic: ar بُرْتُغَالِيّ
Egyptian Arabic: arz برتغالي burtuḡali
Aragonese: an portugués
Armenian: hy պորտուգալական
Aromanian: rup purtugalescu m, rup purtugaleascã f, rup purtuyalescu m, rup purtuyaleascã f, rup purtugãlescu m, rup purtugãleascã f
Asturian: ast portugués
Azerbaijani: az portuqal
Basque: eu portugaldar
Belarusian: be партуга́льскі
Bengali: bn পর্তুগিজ
Bulgarian: bg португа́лски
Burmese: my ပေါ်တူဂီ
Carpathian Rusyn: rue портуґа́льскый
Catalan: ca portuguès, obsolete ca portugalès
Valencian: ca portugués m, ca portuguesa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 葡萄牙 Pútáoyá de 葡萄牙的
Czech: cs portugalský
Danish: da portugisisk
Dutch: nl Portugees, nl Portugese
Esperanto: eo portugala
Estonian: et portugali
Finnish: fi portugalilainen
French: fr portugais m, fr portugaise f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Portugeesk
Friulian: fur portughês
Galician: gl portugués
Georgian: ka პორტუგალიური
German: de portugiesisch
Greek: el πορτογαλικός
Hawaiian: haw Pokukala, haw Pukikī
Hebrew: he פּוֹרְטוּגֶזִי
Hindi: hi पुर्तगाली
Hungarian: hu portugál
Icelandic: is portúgalskur
Indonesian: id Portugal, id Portugis
Interlingua: ia portugese
Irish: ga Portaingéalach
Italian: it portoghese
Japanese: ja ポルトガル Porutogaru no ポルトガルの
Javanese: jv Portegal, jv Portugis
Kazakh: kk португалдық
Khmer: km ព័រទុយហ្គាល់
Korean: ko 포르투갈 ^포르투갈-의
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr portugalî
Kyrgyz: ky португал
Lao: lo ປອກຕຸຍການ
Latin: la lusitanus m, la portucalensis m f
Latvian: lv portugāļu, lv portugālisks
Leonese: roa-leo pertués
Lithuanian: lt portugalų, lt portugališkas
Luxembourgish: lb portugisesch
Macedonian: mk португалски
Malay: ms Portugis
Maltese: mt Portugiż
Māori: mi Pōtikī
Mongolian: mn португали
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb portugisisk
Nynorsk: nn portugisisk
Occitan: oc portugués
Pashto: ps پرتګالي portagālí, ps پرتګالی portagāláy, ps پورتګالي portagālí, ps پورتګالی portagāláy
Persian: fa پرتغالی portoġâli
Polish: pl portugalski
Portuguese: pt português, pt lusitano, pt lusitânico, pt luso
Romanian: ro portughez
Russian: ru португа́льский
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh по̏ртуга̄лскӣ
Latin: sh pȍrtugālskī
Shan: shn ပေႃးတူႉၵၢဝ်ႇ
Sicilian: scn purtujisi, scn purtughisi, scn lusitanu
Slovak: sk portugalský
Slovene: sl portugálski
Spanish: es portugués
Swedish: sv portugisisk
Tajik: tg португалӣ
Thai: th โปรตุเกส
Turkish: tr Portekiz
Turkmen: tk portugal
Ukrainian: uk португа́льський, uk портуґа́льський
Urdu: ur پرتگیزی purtugīzī
Uyghur: ug پورتۇگال
Uzbek: uz portugal
Venetan: vec portoghexe
Vietnamese: vi Bồ Đào Nha
Volapük: vo Portugänik
Yiddish: yi פּאָרטוגייזיש portugejzisz
Zhuang: za Buzdauzyaz
Zulu: zu -asePhothugali
of or relating to the people of Portugal
Afrikaans: af Portugees
Aragonese: an portugués
Asturian: ast portugués
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 葡萄牙人 Pútáoyárén de 葡萄牙人的
Esperanto: eo portugala
Finnish: fi portugalilainen
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Portugeesk
Friulian: fur portughês
Galician: gl portugués
Greek: el Πορτογάλος m, el Πορτογαλίδα f
Hindi: hi पुर्तगाली
Japanese: ja ポルトガル人 Porutogaru jin no ポルトガル人の
Korean: ko 포르투갈인 포르투갈인-의, ko 포르투갈 사람 포르투갈 사람-의
Latvian: lv portugāļu, lv portugālisks
Malay: ms orang Portugal, ms Portugal
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb portugisisk
Nynorsk: nn portugisisk
Polish: pl portugalski
Portuguese: pt português m, pt lusitano m, pt lusitânico m, pt luso m
Romanian: ro portughez
Sicilian: scn purtujisi, scn purtughisi, scn lusitanu
Slovak: sk Portugalčan m, sk Portugalčanka f, sk Portugalčania m-p
Slovene: sl portugálski
Swedish: sv portugisisk
Venetan: vec portoghexe
Volapük: ♂♀ vo Portugänanik, ♂ vo hi-Portugänanik, ♀ vo ji-Portugänanik, collective, ♂♀ vo Portugänanefik, collective, ♂ vo hi-Portugänanefik, collective, ♀ vo ji-Portugänanefik
Xhosa: xh -amaPhuthukezi
Yiddish: yi פּאָרטוגייזיש portugejzisz
Zulu: zu -amaPutukezi
of or relating to the Portuguese language
Afrikaans: af Portugees
Arabic: ar اَلْبُرْتُغَالِيَّة
Aragonese: an portugués
Armenian: hy պորտուգալերեն
Asturian: ast portugués
Bengali: bn পর্তুগিজ
Cherokee: chr ᏉᏧᎦᎵ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 葡萄牙語 Pútáoyáyǔ de 葡萄牙語的
Esperanto: eo portugala
Finnish: fi portugalinkielinen
French: fr portugais m, fr portugaise f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Portugeesk
Friulian: fur portughês m
Galician: gl portugués m
Georgian: ka პორტუგალიური
German: de portugiesisch
Greek: el πορτογαλικά n-p
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug poytugañe'ẽ
Hebrew: he פּוֹרְטוּגָלִי, he פּוֹרְטוּגֶזִי
Hindi: hi पुर्तगाली
Hungarian: hu portugál
Igbo: ig Pọrtụgụese
Japanese: ja ポルトガル語 Porutogaru go no ポルトガル語の
Korean: ko 포르투갈어 포르투갈어-의
Latvian: lv portugāļu, lv portugālisks
Luxembourgish: lb portugisesch
Malay: ms bahasa Portugis, ms Portugis
Nahuatl: nah lusotlahtōlli
Nheengatu: yrl kariwa nheenga
Persian: fa پُرتُغالِی
Polish: pl portugalski
Portuguese: pt português, pt lusitano m, pt lusitânico m, pt luso m
Punjabi: pa ਪੁਰਤਗੇਜ਼ੀ
Romanian: ro portughez
Russian: ru португальский m
Scottish Gaelic: gd Portagailis f
Sicilian: scn purtujisi, scn purtughisi
Slovak: sk portugalčina
Slovene: sl portugálski
Spanish: es portugués
Swahili: sw kireno cki-vi
Swedish: sv portugisisk
Turkish: tr Portekizce
Venetan: vec portoghexe
Volapük: vo Portugänapükik
Xhosa: xh -esiPhuthukezi
Yiddish: yi פּאָרטוגייזיש portugejzisz
Zulu: zu -esiPutukezi
Noun
* s<l:archaic>
en chiefly in the plural A person native to, or living in, Portugal.
en 1897 Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.
en 1920 Paulus Edward Pieris Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658 184 With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.
en 2000 René Chartrand; Bill Younghusband The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1 23 Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.
en
Usage notes
Synonyms
en Portingal obsolete
en Portugal now rare
Descendants
pon Pwohtiki 1
Translations
person native to Portugal
Afrikaans: af Portugees
Albanian: sq portugez m, sq portugeze f, sq portugalez m, sq portugaleze f
Arabic: ar بُرْتُغَالِيّ m, ar بُرْتُغَالِيَّة f
Aragonese: an portugués m, an portuguesa f
Armenian: hy պորտուգալացի
Aromanian: rup purtugalez m, rup purtugalezã f, rup purtugãlez m, rup purtugãlezã f
Asturian: ast portugués m, ast portuguesa f
Azerbaijani: az portuqaliyalı
Basque: eu portuges, eu portugaldar
Belarusian: be партуга́лец m, be партуга́лка f
Bulgarian: bg португалец m, bg португалка f
Catalan: ca portuguès m, ca portuguesa f, obsolete ca portugalès m, ca portugalesa f
Valencian: ca portugués m, ca portuguesa f
Cherokee: chr ᎠᏉᏧᎦᎵ
Chichewa: ny Mpwitikizi 1
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 葡萄牙人
Czech: cs Portugalec m, cs Portugalka f
Danish: da portugiser c
Dutch: nl Portugees m, nl Portugese f
Esperanto: eo portugalo, eo portugalino woman
Estonian: et portugallane
Finnish: fi portugalilainen
French: fr Portugais m, fr Portugaise f, fr portos slang, pejorative
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Portugees c
Galician: gl portugués m, gl portuguesa f
Georgian: ka პორტუგალიელი
German: de Portugiese m, de Portugiesin f
Greek: el Πορτογάλος m, el Πορτογαλίδα f
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug poytugagua
Guyanese Creole English: gyn Potogee
Hawaiian: haw Pukikī, haw Pokukala
Hindi: hi पुर्तगाली
Hungarian: hu portugál
Icelandic: is Portúgali m
Indonesian: id orang Portugal, id orang Portugis
Interlingua: ia portugese
Irish: ga Portaingéalach
Japanese: ja ポルトガル人 Porutogaru-jin
Kazakh: kk португалиялық
Korean: ko 포르투갈인, ko 포르투갈 사람
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr portugalî m f
Kyrgyz: ky португалиялык
Latin: la lusitanus m, la portucalensis m f
Latvian: lv portugālis m, lv portugāliete f
Leonese: roa-leo pertués m, roa-leo pertuesa f
Lithuanian: lt portugalas m, lt portugalė f
Luxembourgish: lb Portugis m, lb Portugisin f
Macedonian: mk Португалец m, mk Португалка f
Malay: ms orang Portugis, ms Portugis
Maltese: mt Portugiż m, mt Portugiża f
Mirandese: mwl pertués m, mwl pertuesa f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb portugiser m
Nynorsk: nn portugisar m
Occitan: oc portugués
Old Tupi: tpw peró
Persian: fa پرتغالی porteġâli
Polish: pl Portugalczyk m-pr, pl Portugalka f
Portuguese: pt português m, pt portuguesa f, pt luso m, pt lusitano m
Romanian: ro portughez m, ro portugheză f, ro portugal m, ro portugală f
Russian: ru португа́лец m, ru португа́лка f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Португалац m, sh Португалка f
Latin: sh Portugalac m, sh Portugalka f
Sicilian: scn purtujisi m, scn purtujisa f, scn purtughisi m, scn purtughisa f, scn purtuchisi m, scn purtuchisa f
Slovak: sk Portugalec m, sk Portugalka f, sk Portugalčan m, sk Portugalčanka f
Slovene: sl Portugálec m, sl Portugálka f
Spanish: es portugués m, es portuguesa f
Swahili: sw Mreno
Swedish: sv portugis, sv portugisiska
Tahitian: ty reo pōtītī
Tajik: tg португалӣ
Tigrinya: ti ፖርቱጋላዊ m, ti ፖርቱጋላዊት f
Tumbuka: tum muPwitikizi 1
Turkish: tr Portekizli
Turkmen: tk portugaliýaly
Ukrainian: uk португа́лець m, uk португа́лка f
Uzbek: uz portugaliyalik
Venetan: vec portoghexe m f
Vietnamese: vi người Bồ-đào-nha
Volapük: ♂♀ vo Portugänan, ♂ vo hi-Portugänan, ♀ vo ji-Portugänan, collective, ♂♀ vo Portugänanef, collective, ♂ vo hi-Portugänanef, collective, ♀ vo ji-Portugänanef
Welsh: cy Portiwgaleg
Proper noun
en Q5146A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, East Timor, and Brazil.
en 2000 João Costa Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies 65 Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.
en 2001 Richard Louis Edmonds; William John Kyle Land Use in Macau: Changes between 1972 and 1994 Arthur H. Chen Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century https://archive.org/details/cultureofmetropo0000inte/ Cultural Affairs Bureau<t:zh:文化局 (澳門) 文化局> 99937-0-007-X 1268299010 255 https://archive.org/details/cultureofmetropo0000inte/page/255/ 2 Overall it is Taipa (which means mudflats in Portuguese and its Cantonese name Tam-zai also means mud flats) that has changed the most through reclamation followed by the east coast of the Macau Peninsula.
The ability of a person to communicate in Portuguese.
Portuguese language and literature as an object of study.
Derived terms
en Indo-Portuguese Old Galician-Portuguese West African Pidgin Portuguese
Translations
the language
Afrikaans: af Portugees
Albanian: sq gjuha portugeze f, sq portugalishte f, sq portugalisht adverb, sq gjuha portugaleze f
Arabic: ar بُرْتُغَالِيَّة f, ar بُرْتُغَالِيّ m
Aragonese: an portugués m
Armenian: hy պորտուգալերեն
Asturian: ast portugués m
Azerbaijani: az portuqalca, az portuqal dili
Banjarese: bjn bahasa Paranggi
Basque: eu portugalera, eu portuges
Belarusian: be партуга́льская мо́ва f, be партуга́льская f
Bengali: bn পর্তুগিজ
Breton: br portugaleg m
Bulgarian: bg португа́лски m
Burmese: my
Catalan: ca portuguès m, obsolete ca portugalès m
Valencian: ca portugués m
Cherokee: chr ᏉᏧᎦᎵ
Chichewa: ny Chipwitikizi 7
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 葡萄牙語
Cornish: kw Portyngalek
Corsican: co portughese m, co purtughese m, co purtughesu m
Czech: cs portugalština f
Danish: da portugisisk
Dutch: nl Portugees n
Esperanto: eo portugala (lingvo)
Estonian: et portugali keel
Farefare: gur Portugalne, gur Portugale
Faroese: fo portugisiskt
Finnish: fi portugali
French: fr portugais m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Portugeesk n
Friulian: fur portughês m
Galician: gl portugués m
Georgian: ka პორტუგალიური, ka პორტუგალიური ენა
German: de Portugiesisch n
Greek: el πορτογαλικά n-p
Greenlandic: kl portugalimiutut
Guajajára: gub karaiw ze'eg
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug rasiuñe'ẽ
Haitian Creole: ht Pòtigè
Hausa: ha Portuguese
Hebrew: he פּוֹרְטוּגָלִית, he פּוֹרְטוּגֶזִית
Hindi: hi पुर्तगाली f
Hungarian: hu portugál
Icelandic: is portúgalska f
Indonesian: id bahasa portugal, id bahasa portugis
Interlingua: ia portugese
Irish: ga Portaingéilis f
Italian: it portoghese m
Japanese: ja ポルトガル語 Porutogaru-go, ja 葡語 ぽご, Pogo
Kannada: kn ಪೋರ್ಚುಗೀಸ್
Kariri:
Dzubukuá: kzw uolidze kaɾai
Kazakh: kk португал тілі
Khmer: km
Korean: ko ^포르투갈어, ko ^포어(葡語)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr portugalî f
Lao: lo
Latin: la lingua Lusitana f (la lingua lusitana f), la lingua Lusitanica f (la lingua lusitanica f)
Latvian: lv portugāļu, lv portugāļu valoda f
Leonese: roa-leo pertués m
Limburgish: li Pórtegieësj n
Lingala: ln liputrugɛ́shi
Lithuanian: lt portugalų, lt portugališkai
Luxembourgish: lb Portugisesch n
Macedonian: mk португа́лски m
Malay: ms bahasa Portugis, ms Portugal
Maltese: mt Il-Portugiż
Māori: mi reo Pōtikī
Mingrelian: xmf პორტუგალიური ნინა
Moksha: mdf португалонь
Mongolian: mn португали
Navajo: nv Boojigol dineʼé bizaad
Nepali: ne पोर्तुगाली
Norman: nrf Portûndgais m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb portugisisk m
Nynorsk: nn portugisisk m
Persian: fa پرتغالی portoġâli
Polish: pl portugalski
Portuguese: pt português m
Romanian: ro portugheză f
Russian: ru португа́льский
Scots: sco Portuguese
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh португалски m
Latin: sh portugalski m
Sinhalese: si පෘතුගීසි
Slovak: sk portugalčina m
Slovene: sl portugálščina f
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb Portugalšćina
Spanish: es portugués m
Sranan Tongo: srn Potogisitongo
Swahili: sw Kireno
Swedish: sv portugisiska
Tagalog: tl Portuges
Tamil: ta போர்ச்சுகீஸ
Tatar: tt португал
Telugu: te పోర్చుగీస్, te బుడతకీచు
Tetum: tet lian portugál
Thai: th ภาษาโปรตุเกส paasăa bprohdtòogèt
Tigrinya: ti ፖርቱጋሊኛ
Turkish: tr Portekizce
Ukrainian: uk португа́льська f
Urdu: ur پرتگالی purtagālī
Uyghur: ug پورتۇگال
Uzbek: uz portugal
Venda: ve Luphothogisi
Venetan: vec portoghexe m
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Bồ-đào-nha, vi tiếng Bồ Đào Nha
Volapük: vo Portugänapük
Walloon: wa portuguès
Welsh: cy Portiwgaleg
Xhosa: xh isiPhuthukezi
Yao (Africa): yao Cipwitikisi 7
Zulu: zu isiPutukezi
See also
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Further reading
Portuguese - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
1 pt por
por
en Portuguese Ethnonyms Languages Nationalities Portugal
en terms suffixed with -ese