pelé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pele"

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pə.le/

Participle

pelé (feminine pelée, masculine plural pelés, feminine plural pelées)

  1. past participle of peler

Adjective

pelé (feminine pelée, masculine plural pelés, feminine plural pelées)

  1. bare; (of animal) mangy

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Named after Brazilian footballer Pelé (1940–2022), who was known as the King of Football.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: pe‧lé

Noun

pelé m or f by sense (plural pelés)

  1. (Brazil, colloquial, sometimes humorous) king (dominant figure in a field)
    Synonym: rei
    Ayrton Senna foi o pelé da F1
    Ayrton Senna was the king of F1

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

pelé

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of pelar
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