holandês
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Holanda (“the Netherlands”) + -ês.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]holandês (feminine holandesa, masculine plural holandeses, feminine plural holandesas)
- (relational) of the Netherlands; Dutch
- Synonyms: neerlandês, (poetic) batávio
- (husbandry, relational) of the Friesian breed of milk cows
Noun
[edit]holandês m (plural holandeses, feminine holandesa, feminine plural holandesas)
- Dutchman (person from the Netherlands)
- Synonyms: neerlandês, (poetic) batávio
- 1933, Graciliano Ramos, chapter VIII, in Cahetés[1], 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Schmidt, page 51:
- — Não, não sou inimigo de ninguem. Mas gosto daquella maneira de achincalhar um typo. A familia do Mesquita... Magnifico! Heroes que luctaram com os hollandezes! […]
- — No, I’m nobody’s enemy. But I like that way of putting someone down. Mesquita’s family... Magnificent! Heroes who fought with the Dutch!
Noun
[edit]holandês m (uncountable)
- Dutch (Germanic language spoken in the Netherlands, Flanders and former Dutch colonies)
- Synonym: neerlandês
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Hindi: ओलंदेज़ (olandez)
Further reading
[edit]- “holandês”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ês
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/es
- Rhymes:Portuguese/es/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/eʃ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/eʃ/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese relational adjectives
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- pt:Netherlands
- pt:Languages
- pt:Nationalities
- pt:Cattle