armário

See also: armario

Portuguese

armário

Alternative forms

• almário (dialectal)
• armario, almario (pre-reform spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin armārium. Compare armeiro.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈma.ɾi.u/ [aɦˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aʁˈma.ɾju/ [aɦˈma.ɾju]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈma.ɾi.u/ [aɦˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aʁˈma.ɾju/ [aɦˈma.ɾju]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aɾˈma.ɾi.u/ [aɾˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aɾˈma.ɾju/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʁˈma.ɾi.u/ [aʁˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aʁˈma.ɾju/
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /aɻˈma.ɾi.u/ [aɻˈma.ɾɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aɻˈma.ɾju/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈma.ɾi.o/ [aɦˈma.ɾɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /aʁˈma.ɾjo/ [aɦˈma.ɾjo]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾˈma.ɾju/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Hyphenation: ar‧má‧ri‧o

Noun

armário m (plural armários)

1. cupboard
2. closet, wardrobe

   Synonym: guarda-roupa

3. locker

   Synonym: cacifo

4. (figurative, informal) a muscular man

Derived terms

• armarinho
• armariozinho
• saída do armário
• sair do armário
• tirar do armário

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: armariu
• Indo-Portuguese: almar, almári
  • → Hindi: अलमारी (almārī)
  • → Urdu: اَلْمَارِی (almārī)
    • →? Assamese: আলমাৰী (almari) (or via Bengali)
    • → Bengali: আলমাৰী
    • → English: almirah, almira, almyrah
      • → Odia: ଆଲମିରା (ālamirā)
    • → Kashmiri:

      Devanagari script: अल्मॉर्य (almạ̄r')

      Arabic script: اَلمٲرۍ (almạ̄r')

    • → Marwari: अलमारी (almārī)
    • → Mewari: अलमारी (almārī), अलबारी (albārī)
    • → Nepali: आलमारी (ālmārī)
    • → Pashto: المارۍ (almārə́y) (likely)
      • →? Dari: اَلْمَارِی (almārī)
    • → Punjabi:

      Gurmukhi script: ਅਲਮਾਰੀ (alamārī)

      Shahmukhi script: اَلْمَارِی (almārī)

    • → Ushojo: ارمارئی (armāray)
• Kabuverdianu: armáriu
• Sãotomense: alumayu
• → Bengali: আলমারি (almari), আলমারী (almari)
  • →? Assamese: আলমাৰী (almari) (or via Hindustani (Hindi / Urdu))
  • →? Manipuri: ꯑꯥꯜꯃꯥꯔꯤ (ʼālmāri)
• → Dhivehi: އަލަމާރި (alamāri)
• → Gujarati: આલમારી (ālamārī)
• → Javanese: ꦊꦩꦫꦶ (lemari)
  • → Indonesian: lemari
    • → Malay: lemari
• → Kannada: ಅಲ್ಮೈರ (almaira)
• → Maithili: अलमारी (alᵊmārī)
• → Malay: almari
  • > Indonesian: almari (inherited)
• → Malayalam: അലമാരി (alamāri)
• → Odia: ଆଲମାରୀ (ālamāri)
• → Sinhalese: අල්මාරිය (almāriya)
• → Tamil: அலமாரி (alamāri)
• → Telugu: అలమర (alamara)
• → Tetum: armáriu
• → Tulu: ಅಲ್ಮೆರ್ (almerŭ)

Further reading

• “armário”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “armário”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “armário”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026