baleia

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baleia (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ba‧lei‧a

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese balẽa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).

Noun

baleia f (plural baleias)

  1. whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones)
  2. (derogatory) whale; land whale (a very obese woman)

Etymology 2

Verb

baleia

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