Natal
English
Etymology
From Portuguese Natal (“Christmas”), because the region in South Africa was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama on Christmas Day, 1497.
Proper noun
Natal
- A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- A former British colony and province of South Africa. It is now called KwaZulu-Natal province.
Translations
capital of Rio Grande do Norte
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former British colony
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Natal.
Proper noun
Natal
Portuguese
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese natal, nadal, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”).
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: natal
- Hyphenation: Na‧tal
- Rhymes: -aw
Proper noun
Natal m (plural Natais)
- Christmas (festival observed on December 25 commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ)
- A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- Natal (a former colony of the United Kingdom, in southern Africa)
Descendants
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Municipalities of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- en:Cities in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- en:Cities in Brazil
- en:State capitals of Brazil
- en:Places in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- en:Places in Brazil
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Indonesian terms derived from Portuguese
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian proper nouns
- id:Christmas
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with homophones
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Municipalities of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- pt:Cities in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- pt:Cities in Brazil
- pt:State capitals of Brazil
- pt:Places in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- pt:Places in Brazil
- pt:Historical dependent territories
- pt:Places in the United Kingdom
- pt:Christmas