papagaio

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese papagay (parrot) (c. 1300, Dom Dinis), from Old Occitan papagay (parrot), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, parrot), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [papaˈɣajʊ]

Noun

papagaio m (plural papagaios)

  1. parrot

References

  • papagai” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • papagai” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • papagaio” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese papagay (parrot), from Old Occitan papagay (parrot), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, parrot), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.paˈɡaj.u/ [pa.paˈɡaɪ̯.u]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pa.paˈɡaj.o/ [pa.paˈɡaɪ̯.o]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɐ.pɐˈɡaj.u/ [pɐ.pɐˈɣaj.u]

  • Rhymes: -aju
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧gai‧o

Noun

papagaio m (plural papagaios, feminine papagaia, feminine plural papagaias)

  1. parrot (bird)
  2. parroter
  3. kite (of paper)
    Synonym: (Madeira) joeira

Derived terms

Further reading

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