trabalho
Portuguese
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese traballo (“pain, effort, labor”), from Vulgar Latin tripalium (“torture instrument”), from Latin tripālis (“having three stakes”), from tres (“three”) + pālus.
Compare Spanish trabajo, Catalan treball, Occitan trabalh, French travail.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Portugal" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /tɾɐ.ˈβa.ʎu/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /tɾa.ˈba.ʎu/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "South Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /tɾa.ˈba.ʎo/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Caipira" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /tɾa.ˈba.jo/
- Rhymes: -aʎu
Noun
trabalho m (plural s)
- job (economic role for which a person is paid)
- Sou lenhador, cortar árvores é o meu trabalho.
- I’m a lumberjack, cutting trees is my job.
- Tenho dois trabalhos para sustentar minha família.
- I have two jobs to support my family.
- job; task (piece of work done as part of one’s duties)
- Tenho um trabalho para ti: vigiar as crianças enquanto vou ao mercado.
- I have a job for you: watching the children while I go to the market.
- (uncountable) work; toil; labour; effort
- Preguiçosos não gostam de trabalho.
- Lazy people don’t like work.
- workplace (place where someone works)
- No meu trabalho temos cadeiras que giram.
- At my workplace we have spinning chairs.
- (figurative) difficulty in completing a task
- Foi um trabalho zerar este jogo.
- Beating this game was a lot of work.
- (Brazil) homework involving research
- Preciso escrever um trabalho sobre a idade do ferro.
- I need to write a report about the Iron Age.
- (religion, spiritualism) An often ritualistic activity or program in some particular religion or cult to obtain a material goal through supernatural means, such as spiritual intervention or magic.
- 2009, Edy Santola, O Livro Mestre De Feitiços & Magias, Clube de Autores, page 489:
- Uma amarração faz uma pessoa ficar com outra, ou faz ela voltar, faz ela desejar e não conseguir deixar de pensar nessa outra pessoa. Por isso, como mais abaixo é explicado, o trabalho de amarração acaba abrindo uma porta para que a pessoa que encomendou a amarração entre por essa porta e acabe conquistando vitoriosamente a vida da outra pessoa.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:trabalho.
Synonyms
- (economic role for which a person is paid): emprego
- (task): encargo, serviço, tarefa
- (labour): labor, lavor
- (workplace): serviço
- (difficulty in completing a task): serviceira, trabalhão, trabalheira
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Kabuverdianu: trabádju
Categories:
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aʎu
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Religion
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