gentalha
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
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From gente (“people”) + -alha.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aʎɐ
- Hyphenation: gen‧ta‧lha
Noun
[edit]gentalha f (plural gentalhas)
- (Brazil, derogatory) riffraff (people of a low, disreputable, or undesirable class or position)
Further reading
[edit]- “gentalha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “gentalha”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
- “gentalha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “gentalha”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “gentalha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -alha
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎɐ/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese derogatory terms
- Portuguese terms with usage examples