Portugal

See also: portugál, Portúgal, and Portugāl

English

Map of Portugal

Alternative forms

• Portingale (obsolete)
• Portugall (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale (former name of what is now the city of Oporto), from portus + Callus, which is disputed:

• From the name of the Gallaeci, a Celtic tribe of Iberia.
• From Latin calidus (“warm”).
• From Ancient Greek Καλλίς (Kallís, “Beautiful”), referring to the Douro valley; see καλός (kalós, “beautiful”).
• An Iberian pronunciation of Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa, “goddess of the Earth”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːt͡ʃəɡəl/, /ˈpɔːtjəɡəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹt͡ʃəɡəl/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Portugal

2. A country in Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. Official name: Portuguese Republic

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Portugal.

Derived terms

• Portuguese

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Portugal
• Albanian: Portugalia (sq), Portugali (sq) f (indefinite)
• Amharic: ፖርቱጋል (portugal)
• Arabic: اَلْبُرْتُغَال‎ f (al-burtuḡāl)

  Hijazi Arabic: الپرتغال‎ f (al-purtuḡāl), البرتغال‎ f (al-burtuḡāl)

• Armenian: Պորտուգալիա (hy) (Portugalia)
• Aromanian: Portogallia
• Asturian: Portugal (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Portuqaliya (az)
• Bashkir: Португалия (Portugaliya)
• Basque: Portugal (eu)
• Belarusian: Партуга́лія f (Partuhálija)
• Bengali: পর্তুগাল (bn) (pôrtugal)
• Breton: Portugal (br) m
• Bulgarian: Португа́лия (bg) f (Portugálija)
• Burmese: ပေါ်တူဂီ (pautugi)
• Catalan: Portugal (ca) m
• Chechen: Португали (Portugali)
• Cherokee: ᏉᏧᎦᎵ (chr) (quotsugali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葡萄牙 (zh) (Pútáoyá)

• Cornish: Portyngal
• Crimean Tatar: Portugaliya
• Czech: Portugalsko (cs) n
• Danish: Portugal (da)
• Dutch: Portugal (nl) n
• Esperanto: Portugalio, Portugalujo
• Estonian: Portugal (et)
• Faroese: Portugal n
• Finnish: Portugali (fi)
• French: Portugal (fr) m
• Friulian: Portugal m
• Galician: Portugal (gl) m
• Georgian: პორტუგალია (ka) (ṗorṭugalia)
• German: Portugal (de) n
• Greek: Πορτογαλία (el) f (Portogalía)
• Hausa: Portugal
• Hawaiian: Pokukala
• Hebrew: פּוֹרְטוּגָל‎ (he) f (portogal)
• Hindi: पुर्तगाल (hi) (purtagāl)
• Hungarian: Portugália (hu)
• Hunsrik: Portugal n
• Icelandic: Portúgal (is) n
• Ido: Portugal (eo)
• Indonesian: Portugal (id)
• Interlingua: Portugal (ia)
• Irish: An Phortaingéil f
• Italian: Portogallo (it) m
• Japanese: ポルトガル (ja) (Porutogaru), (obsolete) 葡萄牙 (ja) (Porutogaru), 葡国 (ぽこく, Pokoku)
• Kazakh: Португалия (Portwgalïya)
• Khmer: ព័រទុយហ្គាល់ (pɔətuygal)
• Korean: 포르투갈 (ko) (Poreutugal)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Portekîz (ku)

• Lao: ປອກຕຸຍການ (lo) (pǭk tui kān)
• Latin: Lusitania (la) f, Portugallia (la) f, Portus Cale m
• Latvian: Portugāle f

• Lithuanian: Portugalija (lt) f
• Livonian: Portugāl
• Macedonian: Португалија (mk) f (Portugalija)
• Malay: Portugal
• Maltese: Portugall
• Maori: Potukara
• Mirandese: Pertual
• Mongolian: Португал (Portugal)
• Navajo: Boojigol
• Norman: Portûnga m
• Northern Sami: Portugal
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Portugal (no)

  Nynorsk: Portugal (nn)

• Occitan: Portugal (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: Портогалїꙗ f (Portogalija)
• Pashto: پورتګال‎ (portogâl)
• Persian: پرتغال‎ (fa) (portoğâl), پرتگال‎ (portegāl), پرتکال‎ (portokāl)
• Polish: Portugalia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Portugal (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪੁਰ੍ਤਗਾਲ (purtgāl)
• Romanian: Portugalia (ro) f
• Russian: Португа́лия (ru) f (Portugálija)
• Rusyn: Портуґалія f (Portugalija)
• Scottish Gaelic: A' Phortagail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Португал m, Португалија f

  Roman: Portugal (sh) m, Portugalija f

• Sicilian: Portugallu m
• Silesian: Portugalijo f
• Sinhalese: පෘතුගාලය (pr̥tugālaya)
• Slovak: Portugalsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Portugálska (sl) f
• Spanish: Portugal (es) m
• Swahili: Ureno (sw)
• Swedish: Portugal (sv)
• Tagalog: Portugal
• Tajik: Португалия (tg) (Portugaliya)
• Tamil: போர்த்துகல் (ta) (pōrttukal), பொர்த்துகீசியா (porttukīciyā)
• Telugu: పొర్చుగల్ (porcugal)
• Tetum: Portugál
• Thai: โปรตุเกส (th) (bproo-dtù-gèet)
• Tigrinya: ፖርቱጋል (portugal)
• Turkish: Portekiz (tr)
• Turkmen: Portugaliýa
• Ukrainian: Португа́лія (uk) f (Portuhálija), Портуґа́лія f (Portugálija)
• Urdu: پرتگال‎ (portugāl)
• Uyghur: پورتۇگالىيە‎ (portugaliye)
• Vietnamese: Bồ Đào Nha (vi) (葡萄牙)
• Volapük: Portugän (vo)
• Welsh: Portwgal f, Portiwgal (cy) f
• West Frisian: Portegal
• Yiddish: פּאָרטוגאַל‎ n (portugal)
• Yoruba: Pọtugi
• Yucatec Maya: Lusíitáan
• Zhuang: Buzdauzyaz

Noun

Portugal (plural Portugals)

1. (now rare) A Portuguese person.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Some became Christians, from whose faith and race, even at this day (for it is an hundred yeares since) few Portugalls assure themselves; although custome and length of time be much more forcible counsellors unto such mutations than any other compulsion.

See also

• Portugal § Etymology on Wikipedia
• Appendix:Place names in Portugal
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City
• Countries of the world
• Lusitania

Further reading

• Portugal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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Afrikaans

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

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Asturian

Proper noun

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portugués

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Basque

Proper noun

Portugal inan

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Portugal (inan, indef, -C)

	indefinite
absolutive	Portugal
ergative	Portugalek
dative	Portugali
genitive	Portugalen
comitative	Portugalekin
causative	Portugalentzat
benefactive	Portugalengatik
instrumental	Portugalez
inessive	Portugalen
locative	Portugaleko
allative	Portugalera
terminative	Portugaleraino
directive	Portugalerantz
destinative	Portugalerako
ablative	Portugaletik
partitive	Portugalik
prolative	Portugaltzat

Derived terms

• portugaldar
• portugalera

Related terms

• portuges

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /poɾ.tuˈɡal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pur.tuˈɡal/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• (Portuguese):
  • portugalès (obsolete)
  • portugués (Valencian)
  • portuguès

See also

• Lusitània (“Lusitania”)

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish Portugal. Also from Portuguese Portugal, from Old Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)
2. A surname, from Portuguese​.
3. A male given name from Portuguese

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Portugal.

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

References

• Mancilla Sepúlveda, Héctor. (2000) Lecciones de Nahuatl, Hirata Editorial, México DF.

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Classical Nahuatl

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portugisisk

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrtyɣɑl/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Portugal n

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• Portugees/Portugese

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.ty.ɡal/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• portugais

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Friulian

Proper noun

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portughês

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portugués

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɐ̯tuɡal]

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Portugal n (genitive Portugals)

1. Portugal (a country in Southern Europe)

Derived terms

• Portugiese
• Portugiesin
• Portugieser
• portugiesisch
• Portugiesisch

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰortuˈkaːl/

Proper noun

Portugal n

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /porˈtuɡal/

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

See also

• (countries of Europe) lando di Europa; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bielorusia, Belgia, Bosnia e Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kroatia, Chipro, Chekia, Dania, Estonia, Finlando, Francia, Gruzia, Germania, Grekia, Hungaria, Islando, Irlando, Italia, Kazakstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Nederlando, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hispania, Suedia, Suisia, Turkia, Ukraina, Unionita Rejio, Vatikano

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay Portugal, from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɔrˈtu.ɡal]
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• Portugis

 

Further reading

• “Portugal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• Portugāl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /portuɡɑl/

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)
   • Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA

     Portugal – Portugal – Portugāle

     Portugal – Portugal – Portugal

Declension

Declension of Portugal (235)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	Portugal	–
genitive (genitīv)	Portugal	–
partitive (partitīv)	Portugalt	–
dative (datīv)	Portugalõn	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	Portugalõks	–
illative (illatīv)	Portugalõ	–
inessive (inesīv)	Portugalõs Portugals	–
elative (elatīv)	Portugalõst Portugalst	–

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Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Portugal n

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• Portugis
• Portugisin
• Portugiser
• portugisesch
• Portugisesch

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Malay

Etymology

From Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po(r)tuɡal/
• Rhymes: -uɡal, -ɡal, -al

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

See also

• Portugis

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Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Portugal

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portugiser
• portugisisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portugis, portugisar
• portugisisk

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Occitan

Proper noun

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portugués

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/

Proper noun

Portugal

1. (Kingdom of) Portugal.
   • 1214, The will of King Afonso II of Portugal, King Afonso II of Portugal:

     eu rei don afonſo pela gracia de deuſ rei de portugal. ſeendo ſano e ſaluo temẽte o dia de mia morte […]

     I, King Afonso, by the grace of God king of Portugal, being safe and sound, fearing the day of my death […]

   • 13th century C.E., Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, , E codex, cantiga 224 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria de Terena q̇ e no Reino de Portugal, reſſucitou hũa menỹa morta.

     How Holy Mary of Terena, which is in the Kingdom of Portugal, resurrected a dead girl.

Descendants

• Galician: Portugal
• Portuguese: Portugal

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Portuguese

Portugal

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /poʁ.tuˈɡaw/, [poh.tuˈɡaʊ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /poʁ.tuˈɡaw/, [poh.tuˈɡaʊ̯]
  • IPA^(key): (São Paulo) /poɾ.tuˈɡaw/, [poɾ.tuˈɡaʊ̯]
  • IPA^(key): (Rio) /poʁ.tuˈɡaw/, [poχ.tuˈɡaʊ̯]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /puɾ.tuˈɡal/, [puɾ.tuˈɣaɫ]

• IPA^(key): (São Paulo) /poɹ.tu.ˈɡaw/
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal
• Rhymes: -al, -aw

Proper noun

Portugal m (gender only indicated by adjectives, see usage note below)

1. Portugal (a country in western Europe)

Usage notes

The word Portugal is masculine when referred to by adjectives, but it can never be indicated by articles. Therefore phrases like “o Portugal”, “no Portugal” etc. don't exist; articleless forms such as “Portugal” and “em Portugal” are used instead. This peculiarity applies to a few other place names such as Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe, Macau, Timor Leste, Andorra, Israel, São Salvador, Aragão, Castela and Leão. It also applies to most cities.

Derived terms

• português
• portuguesa

Further reading

• Portugal on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Bosnian, Serbian): Portùgālija

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôrtuɡal/
• Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Proper noun

Pȍrtugal m (Cyrillic spelling По̏ртугал)

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Portugal

	singular
nominative	Portugal
genitive	Portugala
dative	Portugalu
accusative	Portugal
vocative	Portugale
locative	Portugalu
instrumental	Portugalom

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Portucale < Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/, [poɾ.t̪uˈɣ̞al]

Proper noun

Portugal m

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Derived terms

• portugalés
• portugalujo
• portugués
• portuguesada
• portuguesismo

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Portugal n (genitive Portugals)

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Related terms

• portugis
• portugisisk
• portugisiska

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Portugal (“Portugal”).

Proper noun

Portugál

1. Portugal (a country in Europe)

Proper noun

Portugal

1. A surname, from Spanish deriving from the name of the country.

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Portugal is the 1,530^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 7,025 individuals.