navalha
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- Rhymes: -aʎɐ
- Hyphenation: na‧va‧lha
Noun[edit]
navalha f (plural navalhas)
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Brazil, idiomatic) one who cannot drive cars well
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese doublets
- 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
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese idioms