Penha

See also: penha

English

Proper noun

Penha

1. A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil
2. District of São Paulo, Brazil

Anagrams

• phane

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French

Proper noun

Penha m

1. A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil
2. Penha (São Paulo, Brazil)
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, →ISBN , chap. XI, p. 109

     Sur le talus descendant vers le Tamanduatehy et qui domine les quartiers populaires du Braz et de la Penha, subsistaient encore en 1935 quelques ruelles provinciales et des largos : places carrées et herbues, entourées de maisons basses à toit de tuiles et à petites fenêtres grillagées, peintes à la chaux, [...]

     — On the slope which leads down to the Tamanduatehy and overlooks the working-class districts of Braz and Penha, there still remained, in 1935, a few small provinvial streets and largos, grassy squares surrounded by low, tiled and whitewashed houses with small barred windows. — 1973, John & Doreen Weightman (trans.), Tristes Tropiques, 2011 ed., Penguin Books, →ISBN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Penha

1. A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil
2. Penha (a district of São Paulo, Brazil)