orelha

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Galician[edit]

Noun[edit]

orelha f (plural orelhas, reintegrationist norm)

reintegrationist spelling of orella

References[edit]

“orelha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

orella

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

Noun[edit]

orelha f (plural orelhas)

ear

Descendants[edit]

Galician: orella
Portuguese: orelha (see there for further descendants)

Further reading[edit]

Universo Cantigas - "orelha"

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

orelha

Orelha

Alternative forms[edit]

ourelha (dialectal)

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese orelha, from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula. Cognate Galician orella, Spanish oreja. Doublet of aurícula

Pronunciation[edit]

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈɾe.ʎɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈɾe.ʎa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɾɐ(j).ʎɐ/, (dialectal) /o(w)ˈɾɐ(j).ʎɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɾe.ʎɐ/, (dialectal) /owˈɾe.ʎɐ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɾe.ʎɐ/, (dialectal) /o(w)ˈɾe.ʎɐ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɾe.ʎɐ/, (dialectal) /oˈɾe.ʎɐ/

Rhymes: -eʎɐ
Hyphenation: o‧re‧lha

Noun[edit]

orelha f (plural orelhas)

(anatomy) ear
bookflap
(Brazil, informal) dog-ear
the claw of a claw hammer
Synonyms: unha, garra

Usage notes[edit]

Colloquially, orelha refers exclusively to the auricle, while ouvido is the earhole, but the terms can be interchangeable in some cases.

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:orelha.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Guinea-Bissau Creole: oredja
Kabuverdianu: oredja, orédja
Papiamentu: orea

See also[edit]

ouvido

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