irmã
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese irmãa, yrmãa, from Latin germāna (“sister”), from the adjective germānus (“of siblings”); more at irmão. By surface analysis, irmão + -a (forms feminine equivalents).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]irmã f (plural irmãs)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /iɾˈmɐ̃/
Noun
[edit]irmã m (plural irmãs, feminine irmã, feminine plural irmãs)
References
[edit]- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “irmã”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- Leite de Vasconcelos, José. Opúsculos. 1988.
Further reading
[edit]- “irmã”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -a
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃/2 syllables
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- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese dialectal terms
- pt:Female family members