Praia

See also: praia

English

Etymology

From Portuguese praia (“beach”).

Named after Praia de Santa Maria which is now Praia da Gamboa (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪə

Proper noun

Praia

1. The capital city of Cape Verde.
2. A municipality of Cape Verde.

Related terms

• praiense

Translations

capital of Cape Verde

• Afrikaans: Praia
• Arabic: بْرَايَا f (brāyā)
• Armenian: Պրայա (Praya)
• Belarusian: Пра́я f (Prája)
• Bulgarian: Пра́я f (Prája)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普拉亞 / 普拉亚 (zh) (Pǔlāyà)

• Danish: Praia
• Dutch: Praia n
• Finnish: Praia
• Galician: Praia (gl)
• Georgian: პრაია (ṗraia)
• Greek: Πράια (Práia)
• Hebrew: פראיה
• Hindi: प्राया (prāyā)
• Irish: Praia
• Japanese: プライア (ja) (Puraia)
• Kabuverdianu: Praia
• Khmer: ប្រាយ៉ា (km) (praayaa)
• Korean: 프라이아 (Peuraia)
• Macedonian: Праја f (Praja)
• Polish: Praia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Praia (pt) f
• Russian: Пра́я (ru) f (Prája)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Праја f

  Latin: Praia f

• Spanish: Praia (es)
• Thai: ไปรอา
• Ukrainian: Пра́я f (Prája)
• Vietnamese: Prai-a

Anagrams

• apair

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Praia

1. Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)

Hunsrik

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.

Medieval Latin plaga?

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Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.

Ancient Greek πλάγος (plágos)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)

Ancient Greek πλάγῐος (plágĭos)

Ancient Greek πλάγια (plágia)?

Medieval Latin plagia

Old Galician-Portuguese praia

Brazilian Portuguese praiabor.

Hunsrik Praia

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese praia.

Cognate with Nheengatu praya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpraɪ̯a/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯a
• Syllabification: Prai‧a

Noun

Praia f (plural Praias)

1. beach

Kabuverdianu

Proper noun

Praia

1. (Santiago) Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)
2. (Santiago) Praia (a municipality of Cape Verde)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Praia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpra.ja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: Pra‧ia

Proper noun

Praia f

1. Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)

Declension

Declension of Praia

	singular
nominative	Praia
genitive	Prai
dative	Prai
accusative	Praię
instrumental	Praią
locative	Prai
vocative	Praio

Derived terms

adjective

• prajański

nouns

• prajanin
• prajanka

Further reading

• Praia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.ɐ/ [ˈpɾaɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.ɐ/ [ˈpɾaɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.a/ [ˈpɾaɪ̯.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾaj.ɐ/

• Homophone: praia
• Hyphenation: Prai‧a

Proper noun

Praia f

1. Praia (the capital city of Cape Verde)
2. Praia (a municipality of Cape Verde)

Related terms

• praiense

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /praja/, [ˈpraja]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: Pra‧ia

Proper noun

Praia f (relational adjective praiský, demonym Praičan, female demonym Praičanka)

1. Praia (the capital of Cape Verde)

Declension

Declension of Praia
(pattern ulica)

	singular
nominative	Praia
genitive	Praie
dative	Praii
accusative	Praiu
locative	Praii
instrumental	Praiou

Further reading

• “Praia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026