leilão

See also: leilaõ

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• leilaõ, leilam, leylão, leylaõ, leylam (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic أَعْلَمَ (ʔaʕlama)

Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām)bor.

Portuguese leilão

Borrowed from Arabic إِعْلَام (ʔiʕlām).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lejˈlɐ̃w̃/ [leɪ̯ˈlɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐjˈlɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐjˈlɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /lejˈlɐ̃w̃/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /lejˈlɐ̃w̃/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /leˈlɐ̃w̃/

• Hyphenation: lei‧lão

Noun

leilão m (plural leilões)

1. auction

Derived terms

• leiloar

Descendants

• → Bengali: নিলাম (nilam)
• → Gujarati: લિલામ (lilām), લિલાઉં (lilāũ), નિલામ (nilām)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नीलाम (nīlām)

  • → Burmese: လေလံ (lelam)
  • → Dari: لِیلَام (līlām)
  • → Lao: ເລຫຼັງ (lē lang)
  • → Pashto: ليلام (lilām)
  • → Punjabi: ਨਿਲਾਮ (nilām), ਨਿਲਾਮੀ (nilāmī)

  Urdu: نِیلَام (nīlām)

• → Kannada: ಲಿಲಾವು (lilāvu)
• → Malay: lelong
  • Indonesian: lelang
  • → Min Nan: 黎壟 / 黎垄 (lê-lóng)
• → Marathi: लिलाव (lilāv)
• →? Tamil: ஏலம் (ēlam)
• →? Telugu: వేలము (vēlamu), వేలం (vēlaṁ)

Further reading

• “leilão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026