armário

See also: armario

Portuguese

armário

Alternative forms

• almário (dialectal)
• armario, almario (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin armārium. Compare armeiro.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈma.ɾi.u/ [aɦˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aʁˈma.ɾju/ [aɦˈma.ɾju]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈma.ɾi.u/ [aɦˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aʁˈma.ɾju/ [aɦˈma.ɾju]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aɾˈma.ɾi.u/ [aɾˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aɾˈma.ɾju/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʁˈma.ɾi.u/ [aʁˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aʁˈma.ɾju/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aɻˈma.ɾi.o/ [aɻˈma.ɾɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /aɻˈma.ɾjo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾˈma.ɾju/

• Hyphenation: ar‧má‧ri‧o

Noun

armário m (plural armários)

1. cupboard
2. closet, wardrobe

   Synonym: guarda-roupa

3. locker

   Synonym: cacifo

4. (figurative, informal) a muscular man

Derived terms

• saída do armário
• sair do armário
• tirar do armário

 

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: armariu
• Indo-Portuguese: almar, almári
  • → Hindi: अलमारी (almārī)
    • → English: almirah
    • → Pashto: المارۍ (almārə́y) (likely)
    • → Persian:

      Dari: الماری (almārī)

    • → Punjabi: الماری (almārī)
  • → Urdu: الماری (almārī)
• Kabuverdianu: armáriu
• Sãotomense: alumayu
• → Javanese: ꦊꦩꦫꦶ (lemari)
  • → Indonesian: lemari
    • → Malay: lemari
• → Malay: almari
  • > Indonesian: almari (inherited)
• → Malayalam: അലമാരി (alamāri)
• → Sinhalese: අල්මාරිය (almāriya)
• → Tamil: அலமாரி (alamāri)
• → Dhivehi: އަލަމާރި (alamāri)
• → Tetum: armáriu

Further reading

• “armário”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024